The long journey of blue-eyed shags started in South America, with the birds island hopping via Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic islands to New Zealand. Mergansers arriving from the northern ...

About 98% of them sail from South America to the Antarctic Peninsula, in the west. But just a few sail to the south of the ...

the different geological history and age of each island group, and their geographical isolation from mainland New Zealand and from each other, has shaped the unique and remarkable biodiversity of the ...

or Anchor Island, in the Fiordland National Park. The parakeet was once common across New Zealand but is now considered the rarest mainland forest bird in the country, with only 450 wild ...

Department of Conservation kākāriki karaka operations manager Wayne Beggs told Morning Report the birds have been declared ...