Blogger: Campaign Manager for the kokako & co-leader of the Green Party, Russel Norman Why vote for just a bird when you can have a new national park as well? That’s right. As a politician, I can promise you a new Giant Totara National Park to go along with your support for the hauntingly beautiful […]

Blogger: Campaign Manager for the kakariki, Phil Bilbrough My green crimson friend You are bright bubbly beautiful My grandson; see these birds They used to play in my orchard. I didn’t mean for you to go I’m pleased to see you again. My young fellow These birds are bright and full of life Yes, like […]

Blogger: Campaign Manager for the kereru, Kiri te Kanawa In what some may see as a cruel move, European settlers failed to class our kereru as a dove, instead choosing to put them amongst the pigeons, or ‘rats of the sky’. You see, the term dove and pigeon can be used interchangeably – they all […]

Blogger: Campaign Manager for the kiwi and BNZ Save the Kiwi Executive Director, Michelle Impey Picture it: you’re on holidays on the streets of London, chatting to someone who asked your nationality and saying “Hi, I’m a Tomtit”? Or explaining to visitors why we have a pukeko (“a what?!” they ask) on our one dollar […]

Bloggers: Campaign Manager for the shag, Room 16, Birkenhead Primary School, North Shore, Auckland The pied shag in Maori is called karuhiruhi.  We think the pied shag should be bird of the year because they are found all over New Zealand, in cities and the country.  They are extra special because they can be easily […]

Blogger: Campaign Manager for the Bellbird, David Winter Voting is already under way in 2010’s most brutal high stakes political battle – the Bird of the Year poll. A scroll down the current standings reveals plenty of birds that have sunk to employing murky political ties and celebrity endorsements to sell their case. There is […]

Blogger: Campaign Manager for the Barn Owl, Shane Wohlers Haere Mai to New Zealand’s “new kids on the block,” the country’s latest avian “hip young gunslingers”: the Barn Owls. Yes the plural is mightily important as without it these go-getting little fluff-balls wouldn’t hold their newly-minted New Zealand native citizenship–they would still be classed as […]

Blogger: Campaign Manager for the tui, Singer/songwriter Anna Coddington I live in a pretty standard house in Western Springs, Auckland. I really like it here. One of my favourite things about this place is that the owners planted a few native trees round about the place (a kowhai out front, a karaka and some harakeke […]

Blogger: Campaign Manager for the NZ Storm Petrel, Brent Stephenson. It’s fitting for me to be the campaign manager for the NZ Storm Petrel – because, well, I helped to put them back on the map. Considered extinct for more than 150 years, this species was only described from three specimens collecting dust in northern […]