The city council has conducted its annual bird survey along 55km of coastline from Petone to Oteranga Bay.

Conservation Minister Tama Potaka made the announcement at the Isaac Conservation and Wildlife facility near Christchurch.

Thousands of birds flying south for the winter stop off in Nigeria’s Hadejia Wetlands National Park. Researchers mapped the park, uncovering hundreds of species.

Poonam Dhillon, who debuted with 'Trishul' in 1978, worked with Rajesh Khanna in Red Rose and other films. Despite warnings ...

From now until 6 July people are encouraged to get outside look at and listen for birds for one hour, on one day, and record the highest number of each species they notice.

A fossil discovery of an ancient relative of the Australian magpie which lived in New Zealand some 19 million years ago ...

From wild nests to the Auckland Zoo, the rarest bird in New Zealand just wrapped up its breeding season — and it was a ...

Because of their appearance, many people mistake kakapos for another bird called the kea, but the kea is different and can fly. The kakapo is native to New Zealand.

Of the 350 parrot species alive today, the heaviest is the kakapo, a flightless bird also native to New Zealand.

Meet the kakapo—a chunky, moss-green parrot that looks like it waddled out of a fantasy novel and forgot how to fly. This New Zealand native carries one of the bird world's most tragic and oddly ...

Genome analysis of New Zealand’s forest parrot kākā has so far found no genetic differences between its two subspecies. This could allow for more relocations of birds between populations.

It beat two other rare birds – the Chatham Island black robin and the kakapo. The hoiho is native to New Zealand. It has an estimated population of between 4,000 to 5,000 (see graphic).