A 56 million-year-old fossil bone helps explain how this (mostly) flightless family of birds spread to so many different ...

As an adventure traveler and keen outdoorsman, New Zealand has been circled on my world map for a long time. I always pictured my first trip would be some sort of fjord-trekking, wave-shredding, cross ...

New Zealand’s unique birds are at risk of extinction, like the kiwi. So the country is trying to eradicate the invasive ...

Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple ...

More than 300 birds have been translocated this year alone.

Wellington's Capital Kiwi Project says all 10 chicks it has been monitoring have put on enough weight to fight off predators. At just 1.2kg, it said the chicks were big enough to send stoats packing.

Some health benefits of kiwifruit include its high vitamin C content and anti-inflammatory properties. It is also a source of dietary fiber. The kiwifruit, or Chinese gooseberry, has a reputation as a ...

“Uh oh! Does anyone know how to make me big Big Bird again?” the official Twitter/X account of Sesame Street’s Big Bird posted on January 24. Thus began Big Bird’s own Metamorphosis, in which the ...

This paper presents the results of an analysis of bill length differences among sympatric congeneric species associations of 46 bird families inhabiting tropical, subtropical, and temperate areas. The ...

Gavage feeding is commonly indicated for anorectic animals or for oral dosing of medications and compounds. This column describes the proper technique for tube feeding in the psittacine bird. Gavage ...

A Christchurch father-of-three has won a nationwide competition to design a helmet for Formula One driver Liam Lawson. The competition, run by Lawson’s team sponsors Red Bull, invited New Zealanders ...