COLUMN: Pukeko are probably one of the most recognised native birds in New Zealand, with their distinctive colouring and habit of feeding on the ground. They introduced themselves from Australia about ...

New Zealanders have voted ... and the pukeko is New Zealand's Bird of the Year. The wetland bird has won Forest and Bird's annual election by more than 400 votes, receiving 1,480 votes. The world's ...

BIRD OF WARNING: Pukeko living at the pond beside the entrance at the top of the Bird Walk, like this one, have attacked at least two people this week. . Photo: SAMANTHA MOTION / Whakatane Beacon ...

The swamp-loving pukeko has won Forest & Bird's annual Bird of the Year election. It won 1480 votes in what ended up as a two-bird race with the kakapo, which gained 1068 votes. Forest & Bird's ...

The pukeko is a New Zealand native that lives in wetlands. On a grassy slope in New Zealand, Cody Dey and his research assistant wrangle a knee-high bird. Dey grips it carefully in his lap while the ...

Size matters a lot — or at least it does to a type of winged critter living in the South Pacific, a scientist at McMaster University says. Cody Dey spoke on CBC Radio One’s Quirks & Quarks last week ...

An inquiry is under way into how a cull of somewhat similar-looking pukeko birds has led to the slaughter of 5% of the wild population of takahē The head of New Zealand’s national deerstalkers’ ...

The flightless takahe bird was thought to be extinct but was rediscovered in 1948 New Zealand has halted a bird cull after marksmen mistakenly killed several birds from a critically endangered species ...

The same week the pukeko was announced New Zealand's Bird of the Year by Forest and Bird, the season to shoot it in Hawke's Bay was extended by Fish and Game. Fish and Game Hawke's Bay manager Peter ...