New Zealand’s bright green parrot – the kakariki – has won this year’s Forest & Bird poll for Bird of the Year. [kakariki.jpg]A record-breaking 21,223 votes were cast in the poll, which quickly became ...

International bird scientist Dr Luis Ortiz-Catedral, an expert in parakeets and island restoration, has blamed a lack of pest control across Northland as playing a key role in the disappearance of the ...

An attempt to re-introduce a colourful native parakeet to the Bay of Islands appears to be a success with more than 80 per cent of the birds still in the release area five months later. Forty kakariki ...