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New Zealand Bird Atlas Complete
Friday, 31 May 2024, 8:19 am | Birds New Zealand
The New Zealand Bird Atlas project finishes at midnight today (31st May 2024) after running for five years (2019-2024). More >>
Birders Are Taking To The Sky To Survey Endangered Natives
Friday, 24 February 2023, 2:52 pm | Birds New Zealand
Bird experts are taking to the sky to survey endangered natives This weekend, helicopters will fly citizen scientists to isolated Otago peaks in search of pīwauwau/New Zealand rock wrens and more. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2302/fda62e6b36957bba777e.jpeg" ... More >>
2022 New Zealand Bird Conference / 4-6 June
Thursday, 2 June 2022, 6:19 am | Birds New Zealand
The 2022 New Zealand Bird Conference will be held from 4-6 June in Christchurch. The Conference Programme and abstracts are now available here. More >>
Scientists Use More Maori Bird Names
Tuesday, 31 May 2022, 3:16 pm | Birds New Zealand
A new edition of the ‘Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand’ was published by Birds New Zealand this week. For the first time in the 69-year history of these checklists, it is digital-only, published as both web-pages and a pdf (links provided below). ... More >>
New Zealand Bird Conference Will Be Held From 4-6 June 2022
Saturday, 7 May 2022, 2:42 pm | Birds New Zealand
This year’s New Zealand Bird Conference will be held from 4-6 June (Queen’s Birthday Weekend) in Christchurch! Join us for this important event and learn more about our country's unique birds! Over two days there will be a series of scientific ... More >>
Unique Book On Subantarctic Birds Wins A Prestigious Whitley Award
Tuesday, 16 November 2021, 7:35 am | Birds New Zealand
Lost Gold, the first ever book to examine the ornithology of the subantarctic Auckland Islands, has won the Science and Conservation category of the prestigious Whitley Awards for zoological literature. Presented annually by the Royal Zoological Society ... More >>
2021 New Zealand Bird Conference
Thursday, 20 May 2021, 1:33 pm | Birds New Zealand
The 2021 New Zealand Bird Conference will be held from 5-7 June (Queen’s Birthday Weekend) in Thames (Coromandel) Join us for this important event and learn more about our country's unique birds! Over 2 days there will be a series of 10 to ... More >>
2019 New Zealand Bird Conference
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 9:52 am | Birds New Zealand
Birds New Zealand will hold its 80th annual conference in Wellington at Queen’s Birthday weekend. Established by a small group of scientists in 1939 as the Ornithological Society of New Zealand it has grown to more than 1,000 members having wider interests ... More >>
Global Big Day - 5 May!
Thursday, 3 May 2018, 11:32 am | Birds New Zealand
Join more than 20,000 others and become a part of eBird's Global Big Day on Saturday, 5 May! More >>
Importance of LongTerm Monitoring for Native Birds
Thursday, 1 June 2017, 10:48 am | Birds New Zealand
A new report released today by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment draws attention to the perilous state of the majority of New Zealand’s native bird species. This comes as no surprise to Birds New Zealand, a society whose members ... More >>
NZ Bird Data highlights vital importance of Yellow Sea
Sunday, 23 April 2017, 7:14 pm | Birds New Zealand
New Zealand Bird Data highlights vital importance of Yellow Sea tidal flats for migrant shorebirds More >>
Migration of Shorebirds under Threat
Wednesday, 1 October 2014, 2:33 pm | Birds New Zealand
The President of Birds NZ, David Lawrie, recently attended the 9th conference of the Australasian Wader Study Group in Darwin. This is a meeting of researchers and interested people associated with shorebirds from Australia and New Zealand. More >>
Ornithological Society of NZ renamed ‘Birds New Zealand’
Thursday, 24 April 2014, 11:13 am | Birds New Zealand
At its 2013 annual conference in Dunedin the Ornithological Society of New Zealand unanimously adopted a new brand name of Birds New Zealand. The change has been made in the hope that it will improve the awareness, understanding and relevancy of the ... More >>