“Islands are where species go to die.” David Quammen, Song of the Dodo 12,000 birds. No doubt to many readers it has a familiar...

While most of 10,000 Birds’ writers and readers are enduring the northern winter coming early, down here in Wellington we are enjoying one of...

It sometimes feels like conservation news is nothing but doom and gloom, so sit back and enjoy a recent success story from New Zealand....

There is a great deal more I could write about Kapiti Island, and I probably will at some point in the future. I hadn’t...

One of the things about being a birder is that you become, in the eyes of your non-birdy friends, the “bird guy”. In my...

Birds in New Zealand are at their broadest defined by one of two categories, native or non-native. Non-natives abound, thanks to the determined efforts...

Kia ora, and greetings from Aotearoa*, the Land of the Long White Cloud. As I type this on the final day of the long...

A week or so ago (time is flying by so fast these days it may have been months ago or yesterday I’m no longer...