June Birds New Zealand magazine published
June 18th, 2025
The June 2025 Birds New Zealand magazine has been published with a cover photo featuring a Pukunui Southern New Zealand Dotterel taken by Oscar Thomas. This edition contains the results of the 2024/25 nationwide Royal Spoonbill colony and nest survey, and the latest Southern New Zealand Dotterel survey.
There is also news of the translocation of Little Spotted Kiwi to Brook Waimarama Sanctuary and Orange-fronted Kakariki to Anchor Island, and of Kakapo booming on the North Island mainland for the first time in almost a century.
It also includes the 2024 annual reports of the Wader Census, Beach Patrol Scheme, Bird Moult Scheme, Nest Monitoring Scheme, and the Records Appraisal Committee, and reports on the OSNZ Specimen Records Project and changes in the way our scientific journal Notornis is produced and published.
It also contains articles on identifying Swamp Harriers and New Zealand Falcons, and on two projects funded by the Birds New Zealand Research Fund to survey shorebirds along Manawatu rivers and study feather moult in North Island Fernbirds.
There is an illustrated feature article on the 2025 Western Pacific Odyssey voyage from New Zealand to Japan, and an article on the regional distribution of birds in Aotearoa New Zealand, both by Oscar Thomas.
There is also news of successful Banded Dotterel protection activities in the Auckland and Hawke’s Bay regions, and short items on Upland Moa, Tieke and Hihi foraging on colourful fungi.
It also includes the regular report of Birds New Zealand President Natalie Forsdick, and the illustrated quarterly reports from all 14 of Birds New Zealand’s regional representatives from the Far North to Southland.
Link to the magazine: https://www.birdsnz.org.nz/publications/birds-new-zealand-magazine-5/