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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jul 20

The latest issue of our journal Notornis is now online including articles on the mysterious Rebecca Stone (ornithology in the 1800s), changes in the bird community of Auckland Domain, 50 years of petrel records in the Cook Islands, and more. #ornithology #NZBirds
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Notornis – June edition published - Birds New Zealand

The latest issue of Notornis (Volume 72, Part 2, June 2025) has been published and is available via the Current Quarterly Publications page, or click on the links below. FULL ISSUE: Notornis Volume 72...

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jul 20

Our latest Birds NZ magazine is now online, containing news from the 2024/25 national Royal Spoonbill survey and Southern NZ Dotterel survey. Hear from Oscar Thomas on his Western Pacific Odyssey to Japan, and learn how to identify NZ raptors. #ornithology #NZBirds
www.birdsnz.org.nz/publications...

Cover of the Birds New Zealand | Te Kāhui Mātai Manu o Aotearoa magazine for June 2025. The magazine title is in white at the top, above a photo of a Pukunui | Southern New Zealand Dotterel, a stout shorebird, with a rotund, rufous breast and a stubby black bill looking side on to the camera. It is adorned with some bird bling on both legs in the form of both blue and orange colour bands and a metal band used for individual identification.

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Mariona Sardà-Serra @msardaserra.bsky.social · Jun 17

Some news from New Zealand!
Is bird flu at the doorstep?

Great monitoring effort trying to spot and capture a handful of black-iris individuals among hundreds of birds, a very interesting proposal from @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social, v happy to have been involved in the last trip of the season. 👁️🐧

Our Changing World: Getting ready for H5N1 bird flu

New Zealand is one the last places in the world where H5N1 has not yet been detected.

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Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · Jun 24

Apologies for the blatant self-promotion 😜 but I'm very pleased to be a part of the @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social council helping steer the society into the future. Hit me up if you want to have a chat www.birdsnz.org.nz/news/new-cou...

New Council Member - Nic Rawlence - Birds New Zealand

I grew up in Nelson and Golden Bay surrounded by birds above ground and the bones of extinct birds in caves below ground. I spent much of my childhood in the outdoors amongst nature and sailing in Tas...

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Jul 6

Has anyone else every seen the curlew tribe 'anting'?

In Iceland I watched this Eurasian Whimbrel pick ants off the plants & place them deliberately on different part of its plumage. @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @aba.org @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 8

We are offering 2 AOC Student Travel Grants of $700 each to #AoNZ postgrads presenting research at the AOC2025 aoc.org.au, Perth, 18-20 Nov.

Grant details available at www.birdsnz.org.nz/awards-and-p.... Applications close 20 June, so get in quick! #NZBirds #ornithology 🪶

AOC Student Grants - Birds New Zealand

The Australasian Ornithological Conference (AOC) is the primary conference for BirdLife Australia and Birds New Zealand, and the largest biennial gathering of enthusiastic amateur and professional orn...

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 2

The more you know, right!

Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 2

Yep they’re out there! Campbell’s drone counts put numbers lower than the above estimate, but they are tootling around in flocks of up to 6 birds.

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 1

We gratefully thank the local organising committee for their hard work to make #BirdsNZ2025 a great conference weekend! Thank you to all the presenters for sharing the latest research, and to the enthusiastic, engaged audience. Ngā mihi!

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 1

Hui Zhen Tan has been involved with monitoring Tūturiwhatu | Northern NZ Dotterels on Motuihe. Trail cameras are used to assess threats, and nest shelters are being used to provide protection from predators. #BirdsNZ2025 #conservation

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 1

Chris Muller presents the latest tech available for #conservation including automated multi-track VHF telemetry. #BirdsNZ2025

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 1

6 Emu were introduced to the Chathams ~30 yrs ago, which were then released and bred, with an estimate of 200 today on Rēkohu Chatham Island, reports Campbell James. #BirdsNZ2025

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 1

Matt Rayner shares news of fisheries impacts on Kawau tikitiki | Spotted Shags in the northern North Island, where nest numbers have been declining in recent years. #BirdsNZ2025

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 1

Colin Miskelly explains how the species identity of MacGillivray’s Prion was highly uncertain until the find of another population on Gough Island among Broad-billed Prions. #BirdsNZ2025 #taxonomy

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 1

Extreme winds heavily impact seabird movements, but this is understudied as it’s logistically challenging to track #seabirds in these conditions. Jamie Darby has been tracking Toanui | Flesh-footed Shearwaters to see how they respond during storm events. #BirdsNZ2025

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 1

Palaeontology involves a lot of time out in the mud, says Alan Tennyson. A huge diversity of taxa have been discovered from the St Bathans site including >8000 identifiable bird bones. #BirdsNZ2025

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 1

Jacinda Woolly asks what species are present, where are they, and how are they going? Her team on Auckland Council have compiled regional #conservation status assessments of birds in the Auckland region. Auckland was identified as a national stronghold for 24 species. #BirdsNZ2025

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · Jun 1

Graeme Taylor shares his passion project monitoring petrels on 2 tiny privately owned islands off Bethell’s Beach. Since 1989, GT has been monitoring up to 5 species breeding there, counting, banding, tracking and more. #BirdsNZ2025 #seabirds

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · May 31

Johannes Fischer shares the challenges of ensuring standardised approaches to estimating abundance and trends of albatrosses and petrels - important work to inform conservation status + mgmt. #BirdsNZ2025 #seabirds

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · May 31

Nikki McArthur presents results of systematic surveys of birds across hundreds of kms of river in the lower North Island. Cyclone Gabrielle had massive impacts on Banded Dotterel numbers in particular, with a 15% decline, showing how vulnerable shorebirds can be to extreme weather. #BirdsNZ2025

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · May 31

Richard Littauer presents an entertaining overview of how the ICZN code facilitates (and presents challenges for) scientific #nomenclature, in the context of the Checklist of the Birds of NZ. It’s not all Greek (or Latin) to me! #BirdsNZ2025

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · May 31

Zunaira Noreen is assessing flight initiation distance as a measure of boldness of Red-billed Gulls in Otago. This information can tell us how this largely urban population has been increasing since the 1990s while others have declined. #BirdsNZ2025 #ornithology

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · May 31

What impact has the small and bottlenecked population history of Hihi had on relatedness within current populations? Hui Zhen Tan uses genomics to show inbreeding levels are moderately high. #BirdsNZ2025 #consgen

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · May 31

The primary #pathogen causing Kākāpō ‘crusty bum’ (cloacitis) appears to be E. coli. Rebecca French explains how knowing the cause is essential to prevent spread & determine management of infectious agents. #BirdsNZ2025

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · May 31

The Auckland Council seabird monitoring and restoration programme began in 2019. Gaia dell’Ariccia shares updates on #seabird monitoring in the region, focussing on shags, Black Petrels, and Cook’s Petrels. #BirdsNZ2025

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