More links and websites
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Birds
This section of the Department of Conservation site has information on native birds and conservation efforts.
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Gallery of New Zealand’s birds
This gallery links to images and text about New Zealand birds.
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Birds New Zealand
The Ornithological Society of New Zealand website.
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New Zealand Birds Online
This website contains detailed information on all New Zealand bird species, including extinct and fossil species, searchable by name. It also contains a photographic key to guide bird identification.
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Takahē Recovery
The Takahē Recovery Programme involves a network of people throughout New Zealand, working together to ensure the takahē is never again ‘considered extinct’.
More suggestions and sources
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Heather, Barrie D., and Hugh A. Robertson. The field guide to the birds of New Zealand. Rev. ed. Auckland: Viking, 2005.
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Hutching, Gerard. Back from the brink. Auckland: Penguin, 2004.
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Lee, William G., and Ian G. Jamieson, eds. The takahe: fifty years of conservation management and research. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2001.
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Miskelly, C. M. 'Legal protection of New Zealand's indigenous terrestrial fauna – an historical review.' Tuhinga 25 (2014): 25–101.
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Orbell, Margaret. The natural world of the Māori. Auckland: David Bateman, 1996.
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Williams, Murray, ed. A celebration of kakapo. Notornis 53, no. 1 (March 2006).
