New Zealand Birds

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Upland Moa

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Variable Oystercatcher | Toreapango

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(Note: This will be the "new gallery" page. It is presently being developed. Birds are to be added daily as is formating.)

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Endemic — found only in New Zealand.
Native — birds that are naturally found in the country or are self-introduced.
Introduced — brought here by humans.
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Adelie Penguin
Native Bird

Adzebill
Extinct Bird

Amokura
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Red-tailed tropicbird.

Antarctic Fulmar
Native Bird
Additional names: Southern fulmar, silver-grey fulmar, silver-grey petrel, Slender-billed Fulmar, procella glacialoides.

Antarctic Prion \| Whiroia
Native Bird
Additional names: dove prion, Totorore.

Antipedes Island Parakeet
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Antipodean kakariki.

Arctic Skua
Arctic migrant
Additional names: Parasitic jaegar.

Auckland Island Merganser
Extinct Bird

Auckland Island Rail
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Lewin's rail, Auckland rail, Dryolimnas muelleri, Lewinia muelleri.

Australasian Bittern \| Matuku
Native Bird
Additional names: Botaurus australis.

Australasian Gannet \| Tākapu
Native Bird

Australasian Crested Grebe \| Pūteketeke, Kāmana
Native Bird
Additional names: Southern crested grebe, Puteketeke.

Australasian Little Grebe \| Tokitokipio
Native Bird

Australasian Shoveler \| Kuruwhengi
Native Bird

Australian Coot
Native Bird
Additional names: Eurasian coot, bald coot.

Australian Magpie \| Makipai
Native Bird
Additional names: Black-backed magpie, western or white-backed Magpie.

Albatross

Black-browed Mollymawk
Native Bird
Additional names: black-browed albatross.

Bullers Mollymawk
Native Bird
Additional names: Thalassarche bulleri.

Grey-headed Mollymawk
Native Bird
Additional names: Diomedea culminata, Thalassarche chrysostoma.

Light-mantled Sooty Albatross \| Toroa pango
Native Bird
Additional names: Toroa-haunui, blue bird.

Royal Albatross \| Toroa
Endemic Bird

Shy Mollymawk
Native Bird
Additional names: molly, white-capped albatross, Thalassarche cauta, Antipodean albatross.

Wandering Albatross \| Toroa
Native Bird
Additional names: Wanderer, snowy albatross, Goonie birds, Gooney birds.

Yellow-nosed Mollymawk
Visitor
Additional names: Thalassarche carteri.

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Banded Rail \| Moho-pererū,
Native Bird
Additional names: Buff-banded rail.

Barn Owl
Native Bird
Additional names: The ghost owl, church owl, death owl, hissing owl, hobgoblin or hobby owl, golden owl, silver owl, white owl, night owl, rat owl, scritch owl, screech owl, straw owl, barnyard owl and delicate owl.

Bittern, Australasian \| Matuku
Native Bird
Additional names: Botaurus australis.

Blackbird \| Manu Pango
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Black ouzel, woozel, merle, chucket, gottling, Turdus vulgaris.

Black-browed Mollymawk
Native Bird
Additional names: black-browed albatross.

Black-fronted Dotterel
Native Bird
Additional names: Elseyornis melanops, crescent plover.

Black Robin
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Miro traversi, Chatham Island Robin.

Black Shag \| Māpunga
Native Bird
Additional names: Black cormorant, great cormorant.

Black Swan \| Kakīānau
Native Bird
Additional names: Wani.

Bobwhite Quail
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Virginia partridge.

Brown Quail
Introduced Bird
Additional names:

Bullers Mollymawk
Native Bird
Additional names: Thalassarche bulleri.

Bush Wren \| Mātuhituhi
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Atua, green wren, Matuhi, Matuhituhi, Hurupounamu

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California quail
Introduced Bird
Additional names: California partridge

Chaffinch \| Pahirini
Introduced Bird
Additional names: shilfa, scobby, shelly, skelly, shell-apple, beech-finch, twink, spink, pink.

Chinstrap Penguin
Native Bird
Additional names: bearded penguin, ringed penguin, stone cracker penguin, Aptenodytes antarctica.

Chatham Island Fernbird
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Megalurus rufescens.

Cuckoo, Long-tail \| Koekoeā
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Kohoperoa, bronze cuckoo, long-tailed koel, screamer.

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Eastern Rosella
Introduced Bird
Additional names: rosella, nonpareil parrot, Psittacus eximus

Emperor Penguin
Native Bird
Additional names:

Erect Crested Penguin
Endemic bird
Additional names: Eudyptes atratus, black penguin, Tawaki, big crested penguin, Catarrhactes sclateri.

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Falcon, NZ \| Karearea
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Sparrow hawk, quail hawk, bush falcon, bush hawk.

Fantail \| Piwakawaka
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Pied fantail, tiwakwaka, grey fantail.

Fernbird \| Matata
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Utick bird.

Fiordland Crested Penguin \| Tawaki
Indemic Bird
Additional names: Pokotiwha, crested penguin, New Zealand penguin.

Flightless Goose
Extinct Bird

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Gannet, Australasian \| Tākapu
Native Bird

Gentoo Penguin
Native Bird
Additional names: Aptenodytes antarctica

Moa (Giant)
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Slender Bush Moa, Large Bush Moa

Goldfinch \| Kourarini
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Thistle-finch, goldie, goldspink, King Harry, red-cap, proud-tail.

Greenfinch
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Green linnet, european greenfinch, green grosbeak.

Grey-headed Mollymawk
Native Bird
Additional names: Diomedea culminata, Thalassarche chrysostoma.

Grey Teal \| Tētē-moroiti
Native Bird
Additional names: Anas gibberifrons gracilis.

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Haast's Eagle (Tē Hokioi)
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

Harrier hawk (Kāhu)
Native bird
Additional names: Circus gouldi, swamp harrier, Australian harrier, marsh harrier, hawk.

Hihi (Stitchbird)
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

Hoiho (Yellow-eyed penguin)
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

Nga Huia
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Heteralocha gouldii, Heteralocha acutirostris, Neomorpha gouldi.

Huru-kowhai (Yellowhammer)
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Yellow bunting, yellow yowley, yellow yeldrin, yellow yoldrin, yellow yite, yeldrock, yolkring, yoit, skite, goldie, yellow amber, yellow ring, scribble lark, scribbler.

Hutton's Rail
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Chatham Island rail, Matirakahu

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(Kāhu) (Harrier hawk)
Native bird
Additional names:Circus gouldi, swamp harrier, Australian harrier, marsh harrier, hawk.

Kāhu (Rook)
Introdcuced Bird
Additional names: ydfran

Kākā
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Bush parrot, brown parrot, mountain parrot, nestor hypopolius.

Kākāpō
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Owl parrot.

Kakīānau (Black Swan)
Native Bird
Additional names: Wani.

Kāmana, Pūteketeke (Australasian Crested Grebe)
Native Bird
Additional names: Southern crested grebe, Puteketeke.

Karearea (NZ falcon)
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Sparrow hawk, quail hawk, bush falcon, bush hawk.

Kāruhiruhi (Pied Shag)
Native Bird
Additional names: Pied cormorant, yellow-faced cormorant.

Kawau o Rangihaute (Pitt Island Shag)
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Pitt Island cormorant.

Kawau tikitiki, Parekareka (Spotted Shag)
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

Kawau tūī (Little Black Shag)
Native Bird
Additional names: Little black cormorant.

Kawaupaka (Little Pied Shag)
Native Bird
Additional names: Little pied cormorant.

Kea
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Mountain parrot.

Kereru
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Kuku, kukupa, New Zealand wood pigeon.

King Penguin
Uncommon visitor
Additional names:

King Shag \| Kawau pāteketeke
Endemic Bird
Additional names: King cormorant, rough-faced shag.

Koekoeā, Long-tail cuckoo
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Kohoperoa, bronze cuckoo, long-tailed koel, screamer.

Kōkako
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Blue wattled crow, Glaucopis wilsoni.

Kōkako, South Island Kōkako
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Orange wattled crow, Glaucopis cinerea cinerous wattle bird.

Koreke (New Zealand Quail)
Extinct Bird

Kororā (Little blue penguin)
Native Bird
Additional names: fairy penguin, Sphenicus minor.

Korotangi (Thin-billed Prion)
Native Bird
Additional names: narrow-billed prion, slender-billed prion

Korukoru (Wild turkey)
Introduced Bird
Additional names:

Kōtuku (White Heron)
Native Bird
Additional names: Great egret, great white heron.

Kourarini (Goldfinch)
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Thistle-finch, goldie, goldspink, King Harry, red-cap, proud-tail.

Kuruwhengi (Australasian Shoveler)
Native Bird

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Laughing Owl \| Whekau
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Hakoke, rock owl.

Light-mantled Sooty Albatross \| Toroa pango
Native Bird
Additional names: Toroa-haunui, blue bird.

Little Black Shag \| Kawau tūī
Native Bird
Additional names: Little black cormorant.

Little Blue Penguin \| Kororā
Native Bird
Additional names: fairy penguin, Sphenicus minor.

Little (Pied) Shag \| Kawaupaka
Native Bird
Additional names: Little pied cormorant.

Little Shearwater
Native Bird
Additional names: Allied shearwater.

Long-tail Cuckoo \| Koekoeā
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Kohoperoa, bronze cuckoo, long-tailed koel, screamer.

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Maina (Mynah)
Introduced Bird
Additional names:

Makipai (Australian Magpie)
Native Bird
Additional names: Black-backed magpie, western or white-backed Magpie.

Mallard Duck \| Rakiraki
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Greenhead, Anas boschas.

Manu-kai-hua-rakau (Song Thrush)
Introduced Bird
Additional names: mavis, throstle

Manu Pango (Blackbird)
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Black ouzel, woozel, merle, chucket, gottling, Turdus vulgaris.

Māpunga (Black Shag)
Native Bird
Additional names: Black cormorant, great cormorant.

Matata, (Fernbird)
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Utick bird.

Mātuhituhi (Bush Wren)
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Atua, green wren, Matuhi, Matuhituhi, Hurupounamu

Matuku (Australasian Bittern)
Native Bird
Additional names: Botaurus australis.

Moa (Overview)
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Te Kura.

Moa (Giant)
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Slender Bush Moa, Large Bush Moa

Moa (Upland)
Extinct Bird
Additional names:

Moho-pererū (Banded Rail)
Native Bird
Additional names: Buff-banded rail.

Mohua (Yellowhead)
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Bush canary, Muscicapa chloris, Orthonyx ochrocephala, yellow headed flycatcher.

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(New Zealand Falcon) \| Karearea
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Sparrow hawk, quail hawk, bush falcon, bush hawk.

New Zealand Quail \| Koreke
Extinct Bird

New Zealand Scaup \| Papango
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Widgeon, black teal

New Zealand Thrush \| Piopio
Extinct Bird
Additional names:

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Torea (Pied Oystercatcher)
Native Bird
Additional names: South Island pied oystercatcher, SIPO.

Toreapango (Variable Oystercatcher)
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

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Pahirini (Chaffinch)
Introduced Bird
Additional names: shilfa, scobby, shelly, skelly, shell-apple, beech-finch, twink, spink, pink.

Papango (NZ Scaup)
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Widgeon, black teal

Parekareka, Kawau tikitiki (Spotted Shag)
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

Pied Oystercatcher \| Torea
Native Bird
Additional names: South Island pied oystercatcher, SIPO.

Pied Shag \| Kāruhiruhi
Native Bird
Additional names: Pied cormorant, yellow-faced cormorant.

Piopio (New Zealand Thrush)
Extinct Bird
Additional names:

Pipiwharauroa (Shinning cuckoo)
Native Bird
Additional names:

Pitt Island Shag \| Kawau o Rangihaute
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Pitt Island cormorant.

Piwakawaka (Fantail)
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Pied fantail, tiwakwaka, grey fantail.

Popokatea (Whitehead)
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

Pūteketeke, Kāmana (Australasian Crested Grebe)
Native Bird
Additional names: Southern crested grebe, Puteketeke.

Pūweto (Spotless Crake)
Native Bird
Additional names: Putoto, sooty rail.

Penguins

Adelie penguin
Native Bird
Additional names:

Chinstrap Penguin
Native Bird
Additional names: bearded penguin, ringed penguin, stone cracker penguin, Aptenodytes antarctica.

Emperor Penguin
Native Bird
Additional names:

Erect Crested Penguin
Endemic bird
Additional names: Eudyptes atratus, black penguin, Tawaki, big crested penguin, Catarrhactes sclateri.

Fiordland Crested Penguin \| Tawaki
Indemic Bird
Additional names: Pokotiwha, crested penguin, New Zealand penguin.

Gentoo Penguin
Native Bird
Additional names: Aptenodytes antarctica

King Penguin
Uncommon visitor
Additional names:

Little blue penguin \| Kororā
Native Bird
Additional names: fairy penguin, Sphenicus minor.

Rockhopper penguin
Native Bird
Additional names:

Snares crested penguin
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Snares Island penguin.

Yellow-eyed penguin \| Hoiho
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

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Quail, Bobwhite
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Virginia partridge.

Quail, Brown
Introduced Bird
Additional names:

Quail, California
Introduced Bird
Additional names: California partridge

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Rail, Hutton's
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Chatham Island rail, Matirakahu

Rainbow lorikeet
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Blue-cheeked lory, Blue Mountain lory, Blue Mountain parrot, Swainson’s lorikeet, coconut lory, rainbow lory, Trichoglossus swainsonii.

Rakirak (Mallard Duck)
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Greenhead, Anas boschas.

Rifleman \| Titipounamu
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

Rockhopper penguin
Native Bird
Additional names:

Rook \| Kāhu
Introdcuced Bird
Additional names: ydfran

Rosella, Eastern
Introduced Bird
Additional names: rosella, nonpareil parrot, Psittacus eximus

Royal Albatross \| Toroa
Endemic Bird

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Saddleback \| Tieke
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Jack bird, wattled stare, wattled starling.

Shinning cuckoo \| Pipiwharauroa
Native Bird
Additional names:

Shy Mollymawk
Native Bird
Additional names: molly, white-capped albatross, Thalassarche cauta, Antipodean albatross.

Silver-eye \| Tauhou
Native Bird
Additional names: white–eye, wax–eye, blight bird

Snares crested penguin
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Snares Island penguin.

Song Thrush \| Manu-kai-hua-rakau
Introduced Bird
Additional names: mavis, throstle

Sparrow \| Tiu
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Spug

Spotless Crake \| Pūweto
Native Bird
Additional names: Putoto, sooty rail.

Spotted Shag \| Kawau tikitiki, Parekareka
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

Starling \| Tāringi
Introduced Bird
Additional names: stare, stareling

Stephens Island Wren
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Xenicus insularis

Stitchbird \| Hihi
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

Stout-legged wren
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Atua, green wren, Hurupounamu, Grant-Mackie's wren, Yaldwyn's wren.

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Takahe
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Notornis hochstetteri, Notornis, Moho

Tākapu (Australasian Gannet)
Native Bird

Tāringi (Starling)
Introduced Bird
Additional names: stare, stareling

Tauho (Silver-eye)
Native Bird
Additional names: white–eye, wax–eye, blight bird

Tawaki (Fiordland Crested Penguin)
Indemic Bird
Additional names: Pokotiwha, crested penguin, New Zealand penguin.

Tētē-moroiti (Grey Teal)
Native Bird
Additional names: Anas gibberifrons gracilis.

Tē Hokioi (Haast's Eagle)
Extinct Bird

Thin-billed Prion \| Korotangi
Native Bird
Additional names: narrow-billed prion, slender-billed prion

Tieke (Saddleback)
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Jack bird, wattled stare, wattled starling.

Titipounamu (Rifleman)
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

Tiu (Sparrow)
Introduced Bird
Additional names: Spug

Tokitokipio (Australasian Little Grebe)
Native Bird

Torea (Pied Oystercatcher)
Native Bird
Additional names: South Island pied oystercatcher, SIPO.

Toreapango (Variable Oystercatcher)
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

Toroa (Wandering Albatross)
Native Bird
Additional names: Wanderer, snowy albatross, Goonie birds, Gooney birds.

Toroa (Royal Albatross)
Endemic Bird

Toroa pango (Light-mantled Sooty Albatross)
Native Bird
Additional names: Toroa-haunui, blue bird.

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Upland Moa
Extinct Bird
Additional names:

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Variable Oystercatcher \| Toreapango
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

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Wandering Albatross \| Toroa
Native Bird
Additional names: Wanderer, snowy albatross, Goonie birds, Gooney birds.

Warou (Welcome swallow)
Native Bird
Additional names: house swallow, pacific swallow.

Whekau (Laughing Owl)
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Hakoke, rock owl.

Whiroia (Antarctic Prion)
Native Bird
Additional names: dove prion, Totorore.

Whitehead \| Popokatea
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

White Heron \| Kōtuku
Native Bird
Additional names: Great egret, great white heron.

Wild turkey \| Korukoru
Introduced Bird
Additional names:

Wren, Stout-legged
Extinct Bird
Additional names: Atua, green wren, Hurupounamu, Grant-Mackie's wren, Yaldwyn's wren.

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Yellow-eyed penguin \| Hoiho
Endemic Bird
Additional names:

Yellowhammer \| Huru-kowhai
Introduced Bird
Additional names:Yellow bunting, yellow yowley, yellow yeldrin, yellow yoldrin, yellow yite, yeldrock, yolkring, yoit, skite, goldie, yellow amber, yellow ring, scribble lark, scribbler.

Yellowhead \| Mohua
Endemic Bird
Additional names: Bush canary, Muscicapa chloris, Orthonyx ochrocephala, yellow headed flycatcher.

Yellow-nosed Mollymawk
Visitor
Additional names: Thalassarche carteri.

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