More links and websites
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New Zealand birds gallery
This section of the New Zealand Birds website links to images and stories about birds in New Zealand, including introduced birds.
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New Zealand Birds Online
This website contains detailed information on all New Zealand bird species, including extinct and fossil species, searchable by name. It also contains a photographic key to guide bird identification.
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Birds New Zealand
Ornithological Society of New Zealand website.
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RSPB
The site of the United Kingdom Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has information about species that were introduced to New Zealand from the UK.
More suggestions and sources
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Drummond, James. Our feathered immigrants: evidence for and against introduced birds in New Zealand. Wellington: Government Printer, 1907.
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Heather, Barrie D., and Hugh A. Robertson. The field guide to the birds of New Zealand. Rev. ed. Auckland: Viking, 2005.
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McDowall, R. M. Gamekeepers for the nation: the story of New Zealand’s acclimatisation societies, 1861–1990. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1994.
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Reader’s Digest complete book of New Zealand birds. Sydney: Reader’s Digest, 1985.
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Thomson, G. M. The naturalisation of animals and plants in New Zealand. London: Cambridge University Press, 1922.
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Wilson, Kerry-Jayne. Flight of the huia: ecology and conservation of New Zealand’s frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2004.
