New Zealand hosts unique flightless, nocturnal birds, evolved in isolation and adapted to predator-free conditions, symbolizing the country's rich biodiversity. The weka, a bold flightless rail ...

Conservation authorities and groups, along with Māori people, recently established a new population of the critically endangered kākāriki karaka, or orange-fronted parakeet, on a New Zealand ...

Out of all these species, 12% of all living birds, approximately 1,200 species, are considered endangered, threatened or vulnerable. In relation to this, approximately 6% of all living birds ...

Silent Skies” — an exhibition of paintings and drawings of critically endangered and extinct birds — is on display at the ...

Some birds have the most peculiar calls. Learn about the kākāpō parrot and the booming sound it makes during mating season.

Conservationists launched a plan to rehome Whenua Hou's diving petrel chicks in an effort to create a new colony and ensure ...

I’ve met friendly birds, like the New Zealand fantail that once followed ... hooked beak makes short work of prey. Endangered, the white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala) is native to Spain ...

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This laid-back country delivers an appropriately relaxed mode of travel – and it’s every bit as spectacular as better-known equivalents ...

Stacie Birky Greene’s relationship with birds started as a kid ... Then, there was the night parrot in New Zealand that they thought was extinct for a long time, but they discovered this ...

Major gentailer lodges High Court appeal to challenge what it says was a flawed decision, with “significant legal errors,” to reject its proposed 300 MW wind farm.