Birds of New Zealand
389 bird species have been recorded in New Zealand on the eBird network — explore the 389 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
389 bird species have been recorded in New Zealand on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 389 of them have a full profile in the Birbs encyclopedia — start with the well-known birds below, browse the complete list, then check which are being reported near you right now.
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Birds to know first
Adelie PenguinPygoscelis adeliae
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
Antarctic PetrelThalassoica antarctica
Antarctic PrionPachyptila desolata
Antarctic TernSterna vittata
Antipodean AlbatrossDiomedea antipodensis
Antipodes ParakeetCyanoramphus unicolor
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Asian DowitcherLimnodromus semipalmatus
Atlantic CanarySerinus canaria
Atlantic Yellow-nosed AlbatrossThalassarche chlororhynchos
Auckland RailLewinia muelleri
Auckland ShagLeucocarbo colensoi
Auckland TealAnas aucklandica
Australasian BitternBotaurus poiciloptilus
Australasian DarterAnhinga novaehollandiae
Australasian GannetMorus serrator
Australasian GrebeTachybaptus novaehollandiae
Australasian ShovelerSpatula rhynchotis
Australasian SwamphenPorphyrio melanotus
Australian King ParrotAlisterus scapularis
Australian MagpieGymnorhina tibicen
Australian Painted-snipeRostratula australis
Australian PelicanPelecanus conspicillatus
Australian Pied CormorantPhalacrocorax varius
Australian Reed WarblerAcrocephalus australis
Australian ShelduckTadorna tadornoides
Australian TernGelochelidon macrotarsa
Australian White IbisThreskiornis molucca
The full checklist — 389 birds of New Zealand in our library
- Adelie Penguin
- African Collared Dove
- American Golden Plover
- Antarctic Petrel
- Antarctic Prion
- Antarctic Tern
- Antipodean Albatross
- Antipodes Parakeet
- Arctic Tern
- Asian Dowitcher
- Atlantic Canary
- Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
- Auckland Rail
- Auckland Shag
- Auckland Teal
- Australasian Bittern
- Australasian Darter
- Australasian Gannet
- Australasian Grebe
- Australasian Shoveler
- Australasian Swamphen
- Australian King Parrot
- Australian Magpie
- Australian Painted-snipe
- Australian Pelican
- Australian Pied Cormorant
- Australian Reed Warbler
- Australian Shelduck
- Australian Tern
- Australian White Ibis
- Baillon’s Crake
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Black Kite
- Black Noddy
- Black Petrel
- Black Robin
- Black Stilt
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black-backed Bittern
- Black-bellied Storm Petrel
- Black-billed Gull
- Black-browed Albatross
- Black-faced Cuckooshrike
- Black-fronted Dotterel
- Black-fronted Tern
- Black-naped Tern
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-tailed Nativehen
- Black-winged Petrel
- Blue Duck
- Blue Petrel
- Blue-billed White Tern
- Bounty Shag
- Bridled Tern
- Broad-billed Prion
- Broad-billed Sandpiper
- Brown Booby
- Brown Noddy
- Brown Quail
- Brown Skua
- Brown Teal
- Budgerigar
- Buff-banded Rail
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Buller’s Albatross
- Buller’s Shearwater
- Bushwren
- California Quail
- Campbell Shag
- Campbell Teal
- Canada Goose
- Cape Barren Goose
- Cape Gannet
- Caspian Tern
- Channel-billed Cuckoo
- Chatham Albatross
- Chatham Islands Gerygone
- Chatham Islands Oystercatcher
- Chatham Islands Parakeet
- Chatham Islands Petrel
- Chatham Islands Pigeon
- Chatham Islands Shag
- Chatham Islands Snipe
- Chestnut Teal
- Chinstrap Penguin
- Christmas Shearwater
- Chukar Partridge
- Cirl Bunting
- Cockatiel
- Collared Petrel
- Common Blackbird
- Common Diving Petrel
- Common Greenshank
- Common Myna
- Common Ostrich
- Common Pheasant
- Common Ringed Plover
- Common Sandpiper
- Common Starling
- Common Tern
- Cook’s Petrel
- Crested Pigeon
- Crimson Rosella
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Double-banded Plover
- Dunlin
- Dunnock
- Dusky Moorhen
- Dusky Woodswallow
- Eastern Barn Owl
- Eastern Cattle Egret
- Eastern Rockhopper Penguin
- Eastern Rosella
- Emperor Penguin
- Emu
- Erect-crested Penguin
- Eurasian Chaffinch
- Eurasian Coot
- Eurasian Curlew
- Eurasian Skylark
- Eurasian Whimbrel
- European Goldfinch
- European Greenfinch
- Fairy Martin
- Fairy Prion
- Fairy Tern
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo
- Far Eastern Curlew
- Fiordland Penguin
- Fischer’s Lovebird
- Flesh-footed Shearwater
- Fluttering Shearwater
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulmar Prion
- Galah
- Gentoo Penguin
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden Pheasant
- Gould’s Petrel
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great Egret
- Great Frigatebird
- Great Knot
- Great Shearwater
- Great Spotted Kiwi
- Greater Crested Tern
- Greater Sand Plover
- Grey Gerygone
- Grey Noddy
- Grey Petrel
- Grey Plover
- Grey Teal
- Grey-backed Storm Petrel
- Grey-faced Petrel
- Grey-headed Albatross
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Greylag Goose
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hardhead
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Herald Petrel
- Hoary-headed Grebe
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Huia
- Hutton’s Shearwater
- Indian Peafowl
- Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
- Juan Fernandez Petrel
- Kakapo
- Kea
- Kelp Gull
- Kerguelen Petrel
- Kermadec Petrel
- King Penguin
- King Quail
- Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
- Latham’s Snipe
- Laughing Gull
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Laughing Owl
- Laysan Albatross
- Leach’s Storm Petrel
- Least Sandpiper
- Lesser Frigatebird
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Light-mantled Albatross
- Little Black Cormorant
- Little Curlew
- Little Egret
- Little Owl
- Little Penguin
- Little Pied Cormorant
- Little Shearwater
- Little Spotted Kiwi
- Little Stint
- Little Tern
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Long-tailed Koel
- Long-toed Stint
- Macaroni Penguin
- Magenta Petrel
- Magpie-lark
- Malherbe’s Parakeet
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Maned Duck
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Masked Booby
- Masked Lapwing
- Masked Woodswallow
- Morepork
- Mottled Petrel
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Nankeen Kestrel
- Nankeen Night Heron
- New Zealand Bellbird
- New Zealand Falcon
- New Zealand Fantail
- New Zealand Fernbird
- New Zealand Grebe
- New Zealand Kaka
- New Zealand King Shag
- New Zealand Pigeon
- New Zealand Pipit
- New Zealand Plover
- New Zealand Rockwren
- New Zealand Scaup
- New Zealand Storm Petrel
- North Island Brown Kiwi
- North Island Kokako
- North Island Robin
- North Island Saddleback
- Northern Fulmar
- Northern Giant Petrel
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Rockhopper Penguin
- Northern Royal Albatross
- Northern Shoveler
- Okarito Kiwi
- Oriental Cuckoo
- Oriental Dollarbird
- Oriental Plover
- Oriental Pratincole
- Pacific Black Duck
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pacific Reef Heron
- Pacific Swift
- Pallid Cuckoo
- Paradise Shelduck
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Phoenix Petrel
- Pied Stilt
- Pink-eared Duck
- Pink-footed Shearwater
- Pintado Petrel
- Pipipi
- Pitt Shag
- Plumed Egret
- Plumed Whistling Duck
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Providence Petrel
- Pycroft’s Petrel
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red-capped Plover
- Red-collared Lorikeet
- Red-crowned Parakeet
- Red-footed Booby
- Red-kneed Dotterel
- Red-legged Partridge
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-necked Stint
- Red-tailed Tropicbird
- Red-vented Bulbul
- Redpoll
- Reischek’s Parakeet
- Rifleman
- Rock Dove
- Rook
- Rose-crowned Fruit Dove
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Rosy-faced Lovebird
- Royal Penguin
- Royal Spoonbill
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Sacred Kingfisher
- Salvin’s Albatross
- Salvin’s Prion
- Sanderling
- Satin Flycatcher
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
- Semipalmated Plover
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Shining Bronze Cuckoo
- Shore Plover
- Short-tailed Shearwater
- Shy Albatross
- Siberian Sand Plover
- Silver Gull
- Silver Pheasant
- Silvereye
- Slender-billed Prion
- Snares Penguin
- Snares Snipe
- Snowy Albatross
- Soft-plumaged Petrel
- Song Thrush
- Sooty Albatross
- Sooty Shearwater
- Sooty Tern
- South Georgia Diving Petrel
- South Island Kokako
- South Island Oystercatcher
- South Island Robin
- South Island Saddleback
- South Island Snipe
- South Island Takahe
- South Polar Skua
- Southern Brown Kiwi
- Southern Fulmar
- Southern Giant Petrel
- Southern Royal Albatross
- Spectacled Tern
- Spotless Crake
- Spotted Dove
- Spotted Shag
- Stejneger’s Petrel
- Stewart Island Shag
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Stitchbird
- Straw-necked Ibis
- Streaked Shearwater
- Subantarctic Shearwater
- Subantarctic Snipe
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Sunda Zebra Finch
- Swamp Harrier
- Swan Goose
- Swinhoe’s Pheasant
- Tahiti Petrel
- Terek Sandpiper
- Tomtit
- Tree Martin
- Tui
- Variable Oystercatcher
- Wandering Tattler
- Wedge-tailed Eagle
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- Weka
- Welcome Swallow
- Western Sandpiper
- Westland Petrel
- Whiskered Tern
- White-bellied Storm Petrel
- White-browed Woodswallow
- White-chinned Petrel
- White-faced Heron
- White-faced Storm Petrel
- White-fronted Tern
- White-headed Petrel
- White-necked Heron
- White-necked Petrel
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- White-throated Needletail
- White-winged Tern
- White-winged Triller
- Whitehead
- Wild Turkey
- Willie Wagtail
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wilson’s Storm Petrel
- Wood Duck
- Wrybill
- Yellow-billed Spoonbill
- Yellow-collared Lovebird
- Yellow-crowned Parakeet
- Yellow-eyed Penguin
- Yellowhammer
- Yellowhead
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Birds of New Zealand by bird group
- Petrels & Shearwaters of New Zealand (52 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of New Zealand (42 species)
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of New Zealand (27 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of New Zealand (27 species)
- Parrots, Cockatoos & Allies of New Zealand (23 species)
Species lists and counts come from the eBird network; "recorded" means reported by birders to eBird. Tap any bird for its full profile, photos, sounds and ID notes.
Frequently asked questions
How many bird species are in New Zealand?
389 species have been recorded in New Zealand on eBird; 389 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in New Zealand right now?
Use the Birds Near You tool to see species reported near you in the last few days, or browse the full checklist on this page.