Story: Small forest birds

More links and websites

• Birds

  This section of the Department of Conservation site has information on native birds and conservation efforts.

• 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.

• New Zealand Journal of Ecology

  The journal of the New Zealand Ecological Society has articles on small birds in forest environments, and many other related topics.

• New Zealand parakeets and other parrots

  This page from the TerraNature site has information and photos for each parakeet species. From the native birds list you can also find the other small forest bird species.

• Birds New Zealand

  The Ornithological Society of New Zealand website.

• Restoring the dawn chorus

  The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society works to improve conditions for forest birds, so the dawn chorus can be restored in New Zealand’s forests.

• Seven black robins

  This 1980 documentary, on the NZ On Screen website, tells the story of trying to save the endangered Chatham Islands black robin.

More suggestions and sources

• Boon, Wee Ming, and others. Molecular systematics and conservation of kākāriki (Cyanoramphus spp.). Science for Conservation 176. Wellington: Department of Conservation, 2001.
• Gill, Brian. New Zealand’s unique birds. Auckland: Reed, 1999.
• Heather, Barrie D., and Hugh A. Robertson. The field guide to the birds of New Zealand. Rev. ed. Auckland: Viking, 2005.
• Miskelly, Colin M., and Ralph G. Powlesland. 'Conservation translocations of New Zealand birds, 1863–2012.' Notornis 60, no. 1 (2013): 3–28.
• Murphy, David J., and Dave Kelly. ‘Seasonal variation in the honeydew, invertebrate, fruit and nectar resource for bellbirds in a New Zealand mountain beech forest.’ New Zealand Journal of Ecology 27, no. 1 (2003): 11–23.
• Orbell, Margaret. Birds of Aotearoa: a natural and cultural history. Auckland: Reed, 2003.
• Sherley, Greg. ‘Co-operative parental care; contribution of the male rifleman (Acanthisitta chloris) to the breeding effort.’ Notornis 41 (1994): 71–81.