Endangered Birds
Tell me about your thesis
Rebecca Stirnemann is a conservationist for Forest and Bird here in New Zealand but her thesis focus was on endangered birds in the Pacific Island. She looked at how the hunting of birds has… Audio
Flightless parrots wing their way north
Four kākāpō have been flown to a new home to improve the resilience of one of the country's most endangered bird species. Audio
Endangered birds set up camp in farm paddock
A colony of 300 critically endangered birds has found an unlikely place to nest - in the middle of a Canterbury paddock full of dairy cows. Audio
Mita Harris gets behind Sonny Tau despite kereru hunting
A Northland conservationist has had a change of heart over Sonny Tau, who today changed his plea to guilty of hunting endangered kereru. Audio
Sonny Tau changes plea on hunting kereru
Embattled Ngapuhi leader Raniera Sonny Tau has pleaded guilty to hunting an endangered bird. Mr Tau had previously pleaded not guilty to the charge but changed that plea today in the Auckland District… Audio
Tiritiri 25
Tiritiri Matangi means 'buffeted by wind'. These days the windy island just off Auckland is a bushy sanctuary to thousands of native birds. Some of them hadn't been seen in Auckland for a hundred… Audio