The Birds

More about birds on Radio NZ

• 40 years since the first ever 'bird'
  They've been a staple of Radio New Zealand for decades - four to be exact. The bird calls have been played in the mornings on Radio New Zealand since 1974.
• Birds on Our Changing World
  A collection of stories about our native birds.
• Birdwatching on This Way Up
  Finding out about New Zealand's birds with birdwatcher Hugh Robertson.
• John Kendrick (1922-2013)
  John Kendrick, the conservationist, filmmaker and sound recordist who initiated and recorded many of the Morning Report bird calls.
• The Secret Life of Bird Calls
  The first songs that echoed across this land came from birds.

External links

• New Zealand Birds Online
• Department of Conservation
• Forest & Bird's Bird of the Year
• New Zealand Birds

English to Māori key

• Australasian bittern - matuku hūrepo
• Australasian crested grebe - puteketeke
• Australasian shoveler - kuruwhengi
• Banded dotterel - tūturiwhatu
• Bellbird - korimako
• Black-backed gull - karoro
• Black-fronted tern - tarapirohe
• Black stilt - kāki
• Blue duck - whio
• Blue-wattled crow - kōkako
• Brown teal - pāteke
• Brown creeper - pipipi
• Buller's mollymawk - toroa
• Caspian tern - tarānui
• Chaffinch - pahirini
• Chatham Island oystercatcher - tōrea tai
• Common diving petrel - kūaka
• Dawn chorus - te ata kōrihi
• Diving petrel - kūaka
• Fantail - pīwakawaka
• Fairy prion - tītī wainui
• Fiordland crested penguin - tawaki
• Fluttering shearwater - pakaha
• Forest parrot - kākā
• Gannet - takapu
• Grey duck - pārera
• Grey petrel - kuia
• Grey teal - tētē moroiti
• Grey warbler - riroriro
• Harrier - kāhu
• King shag - kawau
• Little penguin - kororā
• Little black shag - kawau tūi
• Little shag - kawau paka
• Long-tailed cuckoo - koekoea
• Marsh crake - koitareke
• Morepork - ruru
• Mountain parrot - kea
• Muttonbird - tītī
• New Zealand dotterel - tūturiwhatu
• New Zealand falcon - karearea
• New Zealand shore plover - tuturuatu
• Night parrot - kākāpō
• Northern giant petrel - pāngurunguru
• North Island robin - toutouwai
• Oystercatcher (South Island pied) - tōrea
• Oystercatcher (variable) tōrea pango
• Paradise shellduck - pūtangitangi
• Pied shag - karuhiruhi
• Pied stilt - poaka
• Red-billed gull - tarāpunga
• Red-crowned parakeet - kākāriki
• Reef heron - matuku moana
• Rifleman - tītipounamu
• Royal albatross - toroa
• Royal spoonbill - kotuku ngutupapa
• Sacred kingfisher - kōtare
• Saddleback - tīeke
• Spotted shag - kawau pateketeke
• Shining cuckoo - pīpīwharauroa
• Silvereye - tauhou
• Skua - hākoakoa
• Skylark - kaireka
• South Island fernbird - matata
• South Island robin - kakaruai
• Spotless crake - pūweto
• Stewart Island shag - kawau
• Stitchbird - hihi
• Parson bird - tui
• Wandering albatross - toroa
• Welcome swallow - warou
• Woodhen - weka
• Wood pigeon - kereru
• Whitehead - popokatea
• White-faced heron - matuku
• White-faced storm petrel - takahikare-moana
• White-flippered penguin - kororā
• White-faced storm petrel - takahikare-moana
• White-fronted tern - tara
• White heron - kotuku
• Wrybill - ngutuparore
• Yellow-crowned parakeet - kākāriki
• Yellow-eyed penguin - hōiho
• Yellowhead - mohua

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