Kōrero: Land birds – overview

Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki

• Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust

  This is the website of the Maungatautari Sanctuary project, a forested mountain with a planned pest-free zone of 3,300 hectares.

• 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.

• Birds New Zealand

  The Ornithological Society of New Zealand website.

• Ornithological Society of New Zealand

  The society is devoted to the study and enjoyment of New Zealand birds. Their website has information, images, activities and links.

• What bird?

  This site has identification photographs and descriptions for most of New Zealand’s living species of land bird.

• Zealandia: the Karori sanctuary experience

  The site for the Zealandia project in Wellington has details of endangered birds, pest eradication and other information.

Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga

• Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. 7 vols. Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union and Oxford University Press, 1990–2006.
• Heather, Barrie D., and Hugh A. Robertson. The field guide to the birds of New Zealand. Rev. ed. Auckland: Viking, 2005.
• Miskelly, Colin M., and others. 'Conservation status of New Zealand birds, 2008.' Notornis 55, no. 3 (2008): 117–135.
• Wilson, Kerry-Jayne. Flight of the huia: ecology and conservation of New Zealand’s frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2004.
• Wilson, Kerry-Jayne, ed. ‘The state of New Zealand’s birds, 2005.’ Wingspan 15 (4): 12–21.
• Worthy, Trevor H., and Richard N. Holdaway. The lost world of the moa. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2002.