Birdwatching with This Way Up

Birdwatcher Hugh Robertson (Photograph by by Dave Buckton)

More About Birds on RNZ

• Ngā Manu
  Listen to all of the bird calls from Morning Report.
• Birds on Our Changing World
  A collection of stories about our native birds.
• The Secret Life of Bird Calls
  The first songs that echoed across this land came from birds.
• John Kendrick (1922-2013)
  The conservationist, filmmaker and sound recordist who initiated and recorded the Morning Report bird calls.

External links

• New Zealand Birds Online
• Department of Conservation
• Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
• New Zealand Birds

Image credits

Banded dotterel: flickr

Bellbirds: Glen Fergus (CC BY-SA 2.5)

Blackbird: Tony Wills

Black-backed gull: Peter Morrison. Crown Copyright 1960, Department of Conservation.

Black swan: Tony Wills

California quail: Tim Musson

Grey warbler: Tom Tarrant

Harrier: russellstreet on flickr

Finch: Neil Fitzgerald

Fluttering Shearwater: JJ Harrison - (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Kereru: Justin Bell

Kiwi: C.D. Roderick. Crown Copyright 1980, Department of Conservation

Little shag: Alan Vernon

Oystercatcher: Glen Fergus

Paradise duck: Michael Hamilton (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Rosella: JJ Harrison - (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Royal spoonbill: Sid Mosdell

Shining cuckoo: JL Kendrick. Crown Copyright 1980, Department of Conservation.

Sparrow: Ruben Undheim

Starling: Dick Veitch. Crown Copyright 1979, Department of Conservation.

Whitehead: Roger South (CC BY 2.0).

White-fronted tern: Adam Mark Lenny (CC BY-SA 3.0)