CANBERRA/WELLINGTON: Australia and New Zealand are bracing for the arrival of a destructive bird flu strain by tightening biosecurity at farms, testing shore birds for disease, vaccinating ...

Using mitogenome data from nearly all living and recently extinct New Zealand mainland bird species, researchers discovered many species associated with grass and shrubland, like pīhoihoi ...

Our new research tracks how bird life responded to these changes—in particular how exotic species took advantage of the shifting landscapes to make New Zealand home. Native birds responded to ...

High pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 is spread by wild birds, meaning it’s unlikely it can be kept out of New Zealand, and it’s unlikely to be eradicated once it establishes in the ...