Birds

Spotting the hihi or stitchbird with Hugh Robertson. Audio, Gallery

Hunting by Maori had very different effects on the Stewart Island and Otago populations of Stewart Island shags. Audio

The English naturalist Nick Davies has been watching the cuckoo for over 30 years and his book 'Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature' is published by Bloomsbury. Audio

For the first time ever, tui have been found with lead poisoning. Audio

Recent breakthroughs in DNA technology have allowing scientists to reconstruct the full genome of extinct animals, and learn so much more about the way they lived. Professor Craig Millar of Auckland… Audio, Gallery

It's been more than 140 years since two men put together what remains New Zealand's most famous book about native birds. A History of the Birds of New Zealand combined the passion and knowledge of… Audio

Curator of Ornithology at Harvard University, who will visit New Zealand in August as an Allan Wilson Centre guest speaker for a series of public talks, Bird Evolution: From Dinosaurs to DNA. Audio

An international team of researchers have decoded the entire genetic blueprint of the North Island brown kiwi. Audio

Hugh Robertson on the saddleback. Audio

Drawing birds takes patience. To really get a sense of their behaviour you can't just draw from a photograph. You have to spend time watching. Artist Niels Meyer-Westfeld moved to New Zealand from… Audio, Gallery

A residents group in central Wellington wants the council to give pigeons contraceptives to try to control their numbers. Audio

In what it has called The Battle for Our Birds, the Department of Conservation has done aerial drops of 1080 across hundreds of thousands of hectares of beech forest to try to knock back a pest… Audio

The whitehead (mohoua albicilla) with birdman Hugh Robertson. Audio

Hugh Roberston takes us to an estuary to find the wrybill. It's the only bird in the world whose beak has a sideways kink in it, evolved to help them peck under stones on riverbeds. Audio

New Zealanders feed five-million loaves of bread to birds a year, but new research suggests that generosity is bad news for a popular native. Audio

The Māori word of the week is: manu - bird. Whanaihia nga manu ki te ika. Feed fish to the birds. Audio

The pateke or brown teal population on Great Barrier Island is increasing due to cat trapping and the creation of new wetland homes Audio