More links and websites
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Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust
This is the website of the Maungatautari Sanctuary project, a forested mountain with a planned pest-free zone of 3,300 hectares.
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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
The Ornithological Society of New Zealand website.
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Ornithological Society of New Zealand
The society is devoted to the study and enjoyment of New Zealand birds. Their website has information, images, activities and links.
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What bird?
This site has identification photographs and descriptions for most of New Zealand’s living species of land bird.
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Zealandia: the Karori sanctuary experience
The site for the Zealandia project in Wellington has details of endangered birds, pest eradication and other information.
More suggestions and sources
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Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. 7 vols. Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union and Oxford University Press, 1990–2006.
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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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Miskelly, Colin M., and others. 'Conservation status of New Zealand birds, 2008.' Notornis 55, no. 3 (2008): 117–135.
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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.
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Wilson, Kerry-Jayne, ed. ‘The state of New Zealand’s birds, 2005.’ Wingspan 15 (4): 12–21.
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Worthy, Trevor H., and Richard N. Holdaway. The lost world of the moa. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2002.