When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

New esearch shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since the start of the Ice Age, offering clues into future migration patterns.

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

South Island takahe—a prehistoric-looking flightless bird endemic to New Zealand's rugged ... like stoats and habitat destruction due to land clearance. One of the key reasons for ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...

A count that year found the total New Zealand population of these rare birds had grown to 500. With these two populations reaching capacity, the Department of Conservation (DOC) announced on ...

This travel broke the longest nonstop flight record among birds as known ... they start spotting land and sort of think: ‘Oh, I need to start veering or I will miss New Zealand,’" Conklin ...