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 ...

Pukeko are iconic to some and a pest to others, and Fish & Game is promoting the hunting and eating of the cheeky bird. Protected much of the year, pukeko can still be shot by those with a game bird ...

The often-maligned pukeko was the culinary champion at the annual Nelson Marlborough Fish & Game, game bird food night at Club Waimea on Sunday night. Club Waimea chef Phil Hazeldine wowed the eighty ...

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. The world's ...

The pukeko is a New Zealand native that lives in wetlands. On a grassy slope in New Zealand, Cody Dey and his research assistant wrangle a knee-high bird. Dey grips it carefully in his lap while the ...

An inquiry is under way into how a cull of somewhat similar-looking pukeko birds has led to the slaughter of 5% of the wild population of takahē The head of New Zealand’s national deerstalkers’ ...

WILD FOOD SURPRISE: Though popular in the bird fraternity, the pukeko is a pest in some areas, and eating them is not illegal. Pictured is Inky, a curious bird who endeared himself to Manawatu ...

The flightless takahe bird was thought to be extinct but was rediscovered in 1948 New Zealand has halted a bird cull after marksmen mistakenly killed several birds from a critically endangered species ...