2025 NZ Garden Bird Survey

The 2025 NZ Garden Bird Survey runs from 28 June to 6 July! This annual survey, run by Landcare Research and supported by Birds New Zealand, started in 2007 to study the distribution and population trends of our common garden birds. By participating you will help build a picture of how native and introduced birds are faring in our gardens, indicate which species may be in decline and guide future conservation efforts. Make our birds count!

For details visit gardenbirdsurvey.nz/. For bird identification and calls visit nzbirdsonline.org.nz.

Special Discount Offer for Members only

Potton & Burton Publishing offer a 10% discount and free delivery in NZ to Birds New Zealand members! Details

The discount code NZBIRD24 can be used at the online shopping cart on their website:  pottonandburton.co.nz/. Offer ends 31 August 2024!

The 10% discount applies to the full range of Potton & Burton books, including:

• Takahe: Bird of Dreams – Alison Ballance
• Kakapo – Alison Ballance
• New Zealand Bird Paintings – Ray Ching
• New Zealand Seabirds – Kerry-Jayne Wilson
• Moa – Quinn Berentson
• Drawn to the wild – Nicolas Dillon

Meet our new Secretary – Johannes Chambon

Thank you for my co-option onto Council. My name is Johannes Chambon. Originally from France, I worked in conservation for about 9 years in different places around the world, mostly on islands. I spent several years in the Indian Ocean (Mayotte, Mauritius, Christmas Island), and have some previous experience in Aotearoa New Zealand (Te Mana o Kupe/Mana Island, Whenua Hou/Codfish Island, and Rēkohu/Wharekauri/Chatham Islands). I was involved, amongst other things, in habitat restoration (plant propagation & weed control), population monitoring of birds and reptiles, often of threatened species, and predator control. In 2020, I went back to university to complete an MRes in Biosciences at Swansea University in Wales, UK, where I studied the migration of the endangered Abbott’s booby. I recently started a PhD at the University of Otago in the Department of Zoology, studying the climate change vulnerability of two threatened seabird species endemic to the Chatham Islands, the Chatham Island tāiko and the Chatham petrel. I look forward to further contributing to the conservation of the unique avifauna of Aotearoa New Zealand further as the Secretary of Birds New Zealand.

Johannes Chambon