Responses of New Zealand forest birds to management of introduced mammals

N Fea, W Linklater, S Hartley - Conservation Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past 1000 years New Zealand has lost 40–50% of its bird species, and over half of
these extinctions are attributable to predation by introduced mammals. Populations of many …

Recent advances in avian palaeobiology in New Zealand with implications for understanding New Zealand's geological, climatic and evolutionary histories

TH Worthy, VL De Pietri, RP Scofield - New Zealand Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
New Zealand, long recognised as a land where birds dominate the terrestrial vertebrate
biota, lacked an informative fossil record for the non-marine pre-Pleistocene avifauna until …

New Zealand passerines help clarify the diversification of major songbird lineages during the Oligocene

GC Gibb, R England, G Hartig… - Genome Biology and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Passerines are the largest avian order, and the 6,000 species comprise more than half of all
extant bird species. This successful radiation probably had its origin in the Australasian …

[BOOK][B] Biogeography and evolution in New Zealand

M Heads - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the
biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to …

Systematics and biogeography of the whistlers (Aves: Pachycephalidae) inferred from ultraconserved elements and ancestral area reconstruction

SS Brady, RG Moyle, L Joseph, MJ Andersen - … Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2022 - Elsevier
The utility of islands as natural laboratories of evolution is exemplified in the patterns of
differentiation in widespread, phenotypically variable lineages. The whistlers (Aves …

Pseudogenisation of the Short-wavelength Sensitive 1 (SWS1) Opsin Gene in Two New Zealand Endemic Passerine Species: the Yellowhead (Mohoua ochrocephala) and …

AE Fidler, Z Aidala, MG Anderson… - The Wilson Journal …, 2016 - meridian.allenpress.com
Perception of ultraviolet (UV) light, mediated by the avian short-wavelength sensitive-1
(SWS1) opsin, is important for birds in a range of functional contexts, including foraging …

[PDF][PDF] Hosts of the long-tailed cuckoo (Eudynamys taitensis) and museum specimens of the cuckoo's egg

BJ Gill - Notornis, 2022 - researchgate.net
The description of the long-tailed cuckoo's (Eudynamys taitensis) egg was uncertain until the
1930s. Edgar Stead published evidence in 1936 that it was white with darker (red-brown or …

Photographic evidence of an adult Long-tailed Cuckoo'Urodynamys taitensis' visiting the nest of a Norfolk Island Golden Whistler'Pachycephala pectoralis …

AH Nance, RH Clarke - Australian Field Ornithology, 2019 - search.informit.org
A remote motion-triggered camera captured images of an adult Long-tailed
Cuckoo'Urodynamys taitensis' visiting and possibly depredating a Norfolk Island Golden …

The responses of New Zealand's arboreal forest birds to invasive mammal control

I Fea - 2018 - openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz
Introduced mammalian predators are responsible for over half of contemporary extinctions
and declines of birds. Endemic bird species on islands are particularly vulnerable to …

[PDF][PDF] Observation of a female mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) with 29 ducklings

M SEABROOK-DAVISON - Notornis, 2014 - birdsnz.org.nz
52 nest, it is suspected that this large brood is more likely the result of intraspecific brood
parasitism (Gill 1983; Ahlund & Anderson 2001; Davies 2000; Payne 2005; Steer & Burns …