Fairy tern, Dotterel and Kōkako
By the van der Loos family While on holiday at Omaha over Christmas, we spent a lot of time at...
Black-backed gull banding
Families from Marlborough KCC joined local bird expert, Mike Bell, to help band black-backed gull chicks nesting on the Wairau...
Fundraising at Brown’s Bay
Hi, I’m Betty, and I’m eight years old. I want to help save New Zealand native birds, so me and...
Penguin Box Challenge
This blog provides feedback on entries to our penguin box design challenge in issue 135 (winter 2017) of Wild Things...
Our human bar graph!
Rototuna Primary School made a human bar graph to show their preferences for Bird of the Year 2017! Look’s like...
Kākāpō for Bird of the Year!
By Eunie from Rototuna Primary School Did you know that there are less than 160 kākāpō in New Zealand? That’s...
Vote Kākāpō for Bird Of The Year
By Helen from Rototuna Primary School Do you know which bird to vote for in Bird of the Year? The...
Vote Kiwi for Bird Of The Year
By Ryan from Rototuna Primary School Vote for the intelligent kiwi and the NZ bird.It’s a amazing bird so please...
Vote Kiwi
By Alex from Rototuna Primary School Do you know the kiwi is a native bird to New Zealand? It’s survival...
3 Reasons why Kea should be Bird Of The Year
By Leeschen from Rototuna Primary School Did you know there is a Bird of the Year competition? I think the...
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