Winter transforms vistas as the skies darken, mountains rising from the horizon are dusted in snow and the seasonal passing ...

The exhibit — available for free viewing in the Pacific Beach/Taylor Library through March 28 — was designed to highlight ...

Michael Knapp has received funding from The Royal Society of New Zealand ... Forest cover became patchy everywhere except for the northern North Island. Our new research tracks how bird life ...

High pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 is spread by wild birds, meaning it’s unlikely it can be kept out of New Zealand ... Deputy Political Editor and covers politics from Parliament.

But she said the ferocity of the most recent storm meant the birds couldn't take cover, particularly larger parrots. "Corellas, cockatoos, galahs, rosellas, and magpies, were nesting and hit out ...

Randy Mills knew that as he set out to write a book about one of the greatest to ever play the game of basketball. But Mills also knew there was a slice of Bird's life that had mostly been left ...

Climate change could also be a factor. Most forest birds tend to move away as they require tall trees and continuous green cover. The more humans take over the environment, the less space there is ...

Introduced predators such as rats and stoats kill more than 25 million native birds and wildlife every year in New Zealand. An estimated 1382 rats were dispatched in traps and an estimated 3600 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that four dairy herds in Nevada recently found to be infected with H5N1 bird flu were in fact infected with a different strain of the virus ...

HPAI is primarily spread through direct contact with infected birds but can also spread indirectly through contaminated equipment. Poultry owners should limit access to their flocks, wear ...

Bird books, bird puzzles and bird games, of course. This year Mark and I exchanged Christmas presents in person with our sons and their families and my sister and her husband during a multi-day ...

Books, arts and theatre reviews and stories were a noisy part of the national conversation. As New Zealand media splutters, this is only part of what we stand to lose.