Notornis – June edition published

June 18th, 2025

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The latest issue of Notornis (Volume 72, Part 2, June 2025) has been published and is available via the Current Quarterly Publications page, or click on the links below.

FULL ISSUE:

Notornis Volume 72 Part 2

PAPERS:
The mysterious Miss Rebecca Stone and her collection of birds from Hokianga, 1842: a window into early ornithology in Aotearoa New Zealand

Changes in the bird community of Auckland Domain’s urban forest between 1987 and 2020

Records of petrels (families Oceanitidae and Procellariidae) in the Cook Islands, 1970 to present

Dispersal of invasive Berberis glaucocarpa in secondary forest occurs mainly by exotic frugivores

GPS tracker trial on kea (Nestor notabilis) at Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park

Birds observed and collected by the Austrian Novara Expedition when in New Zealand, 1858–1859

SHORT NOTES:
First record of Kermadec petrel (Pterodroma neglecta) near the New Zealand mainland

New Zealand pipit (pīhoihoi, Anthus novaeseelandiae) preying on a gecko

First record of Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo (Chrysococcyx basalis) in New Zealand

Breeding success of northern New Zealand dotterel (tūturiwhatu, Anarhynchus obscurus aquilonius) and variable oystercatcher (tōrea pango, Haematopus unicolor) at an Auckland coastal site 2018–2025

Monitoring endemic forest birds on Atuanui/Mount Auckland between and within years