I have been working on an article on the recent survey in New Zealand of the Australasian Bittern. However, the final data from the survey has not been forthcoming and in the interim I am presenting a review of an interesting endemic New Zealand species.

This book review considers the publication in 2023 and 2024 of autobiographies by Peter and Rosemary Grant that provide an overview of the

To those more familiar with birds in Australia, the relative lack of them and the apparently vacant niches in New Zealand come as a surprise. Not only have we, in New Zealand, lost about 56 species – 37 of them between the arrival of the Polynesians and the Europeans, and 19 subsequently (Roberson and Heather 2015) – but a number of others are on the verge of extinction.