Illustration by TH Worthy and P. Scofield Of the 350 parrot species alive today, the heaviest is the kakapo, a flightless bird also native to New Zealand. But the extinct parrot, dubbed Heracles ...

A pitch of “very unusual”, “waterfowl themed” and “an incredible multimedia storytelling experience” is possibly an undersell ...

On a hilltop overlooking New Zealand's lush Whanganui River, Dan Steele is thinking about the future. Not just his future or ...

When you think of gulls in Auckland you probably picture a large black-backed pirate, swooping down to snatch hot chips at ...

While I respect the right to protest peacefully, there is no place for activists to antagonise duck hunters with drones and ...

No herds of special interest exist in New Zealand currently, although the law enabling ... and carry out thousands of hours of trapping to better protect vulnerable native species like whio/blue duck.

The humerus, pulled from a well-preserved ancient layer of sediment, belonged to a new extinct species of duck named Amazonetta cubensis, or the Cuban teal, according to a May 9 study published in ...

Nature craves novelty. A look around the wide earth shows her hands engaged in eternal experiments—mixing this with that, urging one mutation over another—until new forms and figures of increasing ...

What looks like a tiny hen's egg is seen emerging from an opening below the head of the Powelliphanta augusta snail, a threatened species endemic to New Zealand. The video was taken at a facility ...

What looks like a tiny hen’s egg is seen emerging from an opening below the head of the Powelliphanta augusta snail, a threatened species endemic to New Zealand. The video was taken at a ...

Photo by Nathan Graff / USFWS The 2025 U.S. State of the Birds Report reveals troubling declines in bird species across almost every habitat and one of the most noteworthy declines this year is among ...