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This is a black petrel, a tākoketai - a seagull-sized bird that only nests in New Zealand. Once found across the North Island and near Nelson, the species has dwindled to a colony of about 5000 ...

Using mitogenome data from nearly all living and recently extinct New Zealand mainland bird species, researchers discovered many species associated with grass and shrubland, like pīhoihoi New ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa. For an article published in Science of ...

meaning it’s unlikely it can be kept out of New Zealand, and it’s unlikely to be eradicated once it establishes in the wild bird population. If it arrives in New Zealand, it could quickly ...