The swamp-loving pukeko has won Forest & Bird's annual Bird of the Year election. It won 1480 votes in what ended up as a two-bird race with the kakapo, which gained 1068 votes. Forest & Bird's ...

New Zealanders have voted ... and the pukeko is New Zealand's Bird of the Year. The wetland bird has won Forest and Bird's annual election by more than 400 votes, receiving 1,480 votes.

A pukeko on a shopping spree turned heads in Blenheim this morning. The native bird, nicknamed Vernon, first headed to the National Bank. He was not buzzed in through the electronic doors ...

The deerstalkers were contracted by the government to carry out a cull of the common pukeko bird in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf but the blundering marksmen killed four takahē birds. Only around 80 of ...

Local hunters were permitted to cull pukeko birds on Motutapu Island. But four takahe birds were shot dead instead. The takahe is twice the size of the pukeko, but they have similar colouring.