Fiona Pardington hopes an exhibition of her images of New Zealand’s extinct and endangered birds will encourage debate, as ...

Presumed extinct for more than 50 years, the wonderful takahē is still very much alive. As this Instagram post shows, it is a ...

One of New Zealand's smallest birds remains in big trouble after a tough breeding season saw a third of the eggs or newly ...

Research from Poland adds to evidence from Latin American countries that compounds in used cigarette butts ward off parasites ...

There is an air of the spectral to Fiona Pardington’s recent photographs of birds. While they are actual specimens, captured ...

More than 100,000 people have tuned in to watch a kākāpō – a rare flightless bird – sleeping, tidying her nest and fighting off intruders ...

New Zealand's Department of Conservation launched a live stream of a kākāpō nest home to a 24-year-old female, one of 236 ...

'We don’t have the Eiffel Tower or the pyramids, but we do have kakapo," says New Zealand Department of Conservation’s Deidre Vercoe. View on euronews ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The world’s only flightless parrot species was once thought to be doomed by design. The kakapo is too heavy, too slow and, frankly, too delicious to survive around predators, ...

Kakapos, which are reclusive and flightless and can live as long as humans, are found only in New Zealand. They feed on the fruit of the rimu tree.

Some seabirds breeding in New Zealand’s largest marine park struggled to raise chicks this summer, most likely because ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bird Cams allow viewers to follow the lives of birds around the world through public livestreams.