Nationally Critical
Most severely threatened, facing an immediate high risk of extinction:
- Antipodean wandering albatross/toroa
- Australasian bittern/matuku-hūrepo
- Chatham Island black robin
- Black stilt/kakī
- Black-billed gull/tarāpuka
- Chatham Island oystercatcher/tōrea tai
- Chatham Island shag
- Chatham Island tāiko
- Gibson’s wandering albatross/toroa
- Grey duck/pārera
- Haast tokoeka
- Kākāpō
- Kermadec white-faced storm petrel
- New Zealand fairy tern/tara iti
- Orange-fronted parakeet/kākāriki karaka
- Pacific white tern
- Pitt Island shag
- Rock wren/pīwauwau
- Salvin’s albatross/toroa
- Shore plover/tuturuatu
- South Georgian diving petrel
- Southern New Zealand dotterel/tūturiwhatu
- White heron/kōtuku
Nationally Endangered
Facing high risk of extinction in the short term:
- Antipodes Island snipe
- Black-fronted tern/tarapirohe
- Chatham Island tomtit
- Chatham Island tūī
- Forbes’ parakeet
- Kea
- Kermadec petrel “Summer”
- King shag
- Masked (blue-faced) booby
- Reef heron/matuku moana
- Southern Fiordland tokoeka
- Southern rock wren/pīwauwau
- Stewart Island tokoeka
- White-bellied storm petrel
Nationally Vulnerable
Facing a risk of extinction in the medium term:
- Antipodes Island pipit
- Auckland Island shag
- Auckland Island teal
- Australasian crested grebe/pūteketeke
- Banded dotterel/tūturiwhatu
- Black petrel/tāiko
- Blue duck/whio
- Campbell Island mollymawk
- Campbell Island snipe
- Campbell Island teal
- Caspian tern/taranui
- Chatham Island pigeon/parea
- Chatham Island snipe
- Chatham petrel/ranguru
- Eastern rockhopper penguin
- Fiordland crested penguin/tawaki
- Flesh-footed shearwater/toanui
- Foveaux shag
- Great spotted kiwi/roa
- Grey-headed mollymawk
- Hihi/stitchbird
- Hutton’s shearwater
- Lesser knot
- New Zealand storm petrel
- Northern Fiordland tokoeka
- Rowi
- South Island kākā
- Southern falcon/kārearea
- Southern white-fronted tern
- Stewart Island fernbird/mātātā
- Stewart Island weka
- Takahē
- Wrybill/ngutu pare
All birds
Find birds with other conservation statuses:
Conservation status of New Zealand birds, 2016 (PDF, 601K). Hugh A. Robertson, Karen Baird, John E. Dowding, Graeme P. Elliott, Rodney A. Hitchmough, Colin M. Miskelly, Nikki McArthur, Colin F.J. O’Donnell, Paul M. Sagar, R. Paul Scofield; Graeme A. Taylor. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 19. 27 p.