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When black-backs attack

Put a drone up and any self-respecting black-backed gull in the vicinity will be there within moments, pecking and hollering...

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Two years on Mana Island

Flora Feltham wrote an early version of our cover story when she was living on Wellington’s predator-free reserve Mana Island...

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Bogans of the sky

Black-backed gulls, their messy city lives, and the people entangled with them....

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Trained observation

In first-year philosophy we chewed over the theory that humans were most interested in watching water, fire, and sky. The...

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Jingle shells, jingle shells…

Ned the snail, whose discovery made international news in 2025, is heading into the new year still without a mate....

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Forty names for kākā

The bird with a big mouth. The bird who leads the flock. The bird who announces the day. The bird...

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Omnibird

Giselle Clarkson , Gecko Press, $44.99...

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There’s no place like home

All around you, animals are building, burrowing or stealing dwellings for themselves and their families. For others, home is a...

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Silent Spring

Last year, they were hit with a deadly virus. The year before that, starvation. What will this breeding season bring...

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A welcome infestation

An Auckland Zoo programme is saving the Hauturu-o-toi/Little Barrier Island wētāpunga....

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