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 ...

Photo / Amos Chapple New Zealand's cute pukeko, known for its colour both in plumage and personality ... A new study shows the lanky birds, often spied on our wetlands and roadsides, vaunt ...

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.

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.

A group of noisy and aggressive pukeko birds are being evicted from a city in New Zealand's North Island. Pukekos are New Zealand's second most popular bird, and are also called New Zealand swamp ...

"The hunters had been carefully briefed on how to differentiate between the flightless takahe and pukeko, including instructions to only shoot birds on the wing," Mr Baucke said. An examination of ...

It is covered in flax with endemic (and now extinct) kaoriki (little bittern) and pukeko birds peering out between the leaves. The second wall will show scenes of old "Port Blenheim", with workers ...