Birds

Wild robins are the perfect subjects for a study looking at how smart birds are, and whether being smart helps them raise more chicks Audio

Tamsin Orr-Walker is the Chair of the Kea Conservation Trust. It's launching a smartphone app to track the endangered South Island parrot, the kea. Audio

We head out with Hugh Robertson to an island retreat of the world's smallest penguin. Audio

New Zealand landscape photographer who draws from his work of the last thirty years, much previously unpublished, for the new book, Spirit of the South, a photographic tribute to the mainland. Audio

Listen to the South Island takahē. Audio

A botanist, planner, zoologist and entomologist collaborated in a survey of Dunedin gardens to find out how well native biodiversity fares in cities Audio

We head out with Hugh Robertson on the hunt for the smallest of our indigenous birds, the rifleman. Audio

You may not think that it costs a lot to feed the local birds, or that it's doing them any harm. But a new study out shows it's a habit that costs New Zealanders about $12.3 million dollars a year… Audio

Each year New Zealanders feed more than 5 million loaves of bread to birds at a cost of more than 12 million dollars. Audio

In a bid to resolve a conflict between humans and kea at a logging site near Nelson, The Kea Conservation Trust has introduced a kea gymnasium. Audio

High country sheep have been saved from being eaten alive by kea. Kea strikes - which happen when the native bird digs its beak into the wool, eating it, the fat and the flesh - have long been a… Audio

Hugh Robertson and Simon Morton go bush in search of the miromiro - the tomtit - a delighful wee fluffy bird that looks a bit like a robin. Audio

A preview of the exhibition at Te Papa, which explores 100 million years of evolution of the tyrannosaur family. Audio

Listen to the characteristic gobble of the wild turkey, an introduced species that went feral in New Zealand in the 1860s. Audio

Science writer and editor of Australian Geographic, John Pickrell, on whether birds are really dinosaurs. Audio

We head out with Hugh Roberston, searching for the fluttering shearwater. Audio

Listen to the yellow-crowned parakeet, a small, noisy parrot that spends most of its time high in the forest canopy. Audio