Story: Seabirds – overview

More links and websites

• Action plan for seabird conservation in New Zealand. Part A: threatened seabirds

  This online article in PDF format (236 pages, 1.89 MB download) by Graeme A. Taylor is part of the Department of Conservation’s series on threatened species.

• Action plan for seabird conservation in New Zealand. Part B: non-threatened seabirds

  A second article in PDF format (203 pages, 1.6 MB download) by Graeme A. Taylor, discussing non-threatened seabirds, their habitat, and conservation issues.

• 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.

More suggestions and sources

• Aikman, Hilary, and Colin Miskelly. Birds of the Chatham Islands. Wellington: Dept of Conservation, 2004.
• Davis, Lloyd Spencer, and Martin Renner. Penguins: living in two worlds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
• Heather, Barrie D., and Hugh A. Robertson. The field guide to the birds of New Zealand. Rev. ed. Auckland: Viking, 2000.
• Higgins, P. J., and others, eds. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. 7 vols. Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union and Oxford University Press, 1990–2006.
• Warham, John. The petrels: their ecology and breeding systems. London: Academic Press, 1990.
• Wilson, Kerry-Jayne. Flight of the huia: ecology and conservation of New Zealand’s frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2004.