Guest Blogger, Campaign Manager for the Albatross, Mandy Herrick

Guest Blogger: Alex Milne, Campaign Manager for the South Island Kokako The South Island kokako deserves this title for its shear tenacity. Despite claims of extinction for the past 40+ years, it keeps popping up. Sightings are invariably chance encounters by hunters and trampers. Others hear resonating haunting calls that carry and linger. Though organ […]

Guest Blogger: Campaign Manager for the Kaka and Blogger, David Farrar The Kaka should be the Native Bird of the Year. The kaka was named after the sounds it makes as an alarm.  It is our native mountain parrot and is the best New Zealand traditions is a loud, noisy and dexterous bird. As most New […]

Guest Blogger: Campaign Manager for the Fantail & Broadcaster, Kim Hill Such good company, the fantail! I realise it’s shamefully anthropomorphic, but they always make me feel as if they’re delighted to see me and have a chat, especially when I’m on my own in the bush. Yes yes, I am aware that they’re just […]

Guest blogger: Co-Campaign Manager for the Kea, Mandy Herrick Ahem, before you go off and vote for, the best bird in the world – our lovely, conniving, uber intelligent kea – I’d like to acknowledge the good people at the Natural History Unit who provided the footage for this video; illustrator extraordinaire, Kieran Rynhart who […]

Guest Blogger: Campaign Manager for the Masked Lapwing & Field Officer for Forest & Bird, Aalbert Rebergen I’m not surprised that the spur-winged plover, or better: “masked lapwing” as it is called in Australia and the rest of the world, receives little mention in the ‘polls’ or receives praises from our VIPs. Some may think […]

Guest blogger: Campaign Manager for the Ruru, Stephen Clark In a year when we remember it was 70 years since we declared war on Germany at the start of the Second World War, it seems a good choice to choose a bird that is still having trouble with Germans. In this case the German Owl, […]

Guest blogger: Campaign Manager for the Kingfisher, Stephanie Gray. If I were to paint our Sacred Kingfisher in caricature, I’d give him a little leather jacket in midnight-blue. For he is a thug. A stunning little predator. A handsome, hard-headed, supremely successful species that excels at pulverising the small prey he swoops upon. Skinks, silvereyes […]

Guest Blogger: Campaign Manager for the Kiwi and Executive Director of the BNZ Kiwi Trust, Michelle Impey   Boring?  Uncharismatic?  Not kiwi – our national icon and a quirky bird! Kiwi are our living icon and perhaps the most taken for granted of all our native species.   Commonly found in company logos, product packaging, clothing […]