Hunting in New Zealand

Fish and Game New Zealand’s information on game-bird hunting.

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.

Byrne, Jack. Wing shooting in New Zealand: pheasant, quail, partridge, duck and goose. Auckland: Heinemann Reed, 1990.

Draper, Keith. A duckhunter’s tale: wildfowling in New Zealand. Christchurch: Shoal Bay, 1999.

Druett, Joan. Exotic intruders: the introduction of plants and animals into New Zealand. Auckland: Heinemann, 1983.

McDowall, Robert. Gamekeepers for the nation: the story of New Zealand’s acclimatisation societies, 1861–1990. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1994.

Miskelly, C. M. 'Legal protection of New Zealand's indigenous terrestrial fauna – an historical review.' Tuhinga 25 (2014): 25–101.

Parkes, Brad. Gamebird hunting in New Zealand. Auckland: Halcyon, 1992.