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From April 1987 to April 1988 (inclusive) I completed 195 5-min stationary bird counts at two forested sires in the Auckland City Domain. Auckland Domain has 22 species of passerines and near-passerines, more than half of them introduced.  The mean annual counts – the first published for the North Island – showed a very high incidence of silvereyes, blackbirds and fantails compared with beech-podocarp forests and conifer plantations of the northern South Island, and a low incidence of grey warblers and shining cuckoos. Whether these are general characteristics of northern or urban forests awaits further study.