In this section:

This list of threatened New Zealand birds consists of species that have been classified as either nationally critical, nationally endangered, or nationally vulnerable in the New Zealand Threat Classification System.

Nationally critical New Zealand birds

    Black stilt on nest by a river. Photo: Dick Veitch.
    Nationally critical black stilt/kakī

  • Black robin
  • Black stilt/kakī
  • Bounty Island shag
  • Campbell Island snipe
  • Campbell Island teal
  • Chatham Island oystercatcher
  • Chatham Island pigeon, parea
  • Chatham Island taiko
  • Codfish Island South Georgian diving petrel
  • Eastern rockhopper penguin
  • Grey duck
  • Grey-headed mollymawk
  • Haast tokoeka
  • Kakapo
  • Kermadec white-faced storm petrel
  • New Zealand fairy tern
  • New Zealand shore plover
  • Orange-fronted parakeet
  • Rowi, Okarito brown kiwi
  • South Island brown teal
  • Southern New Zealand dotterel
  • Takahe
  • White heron
  • White tern

Nationally endangered New Zealand birds

    A bittern flying. One of New Zealand's nationally endangered birds. Photo copyright Peter Langlands. DOC use only.
    The nationally endangered bittern

  • Bittern
  • Black-billed gull/tarāpuka
  • Black-fronted tern/tarapirohe
  • Chatham Island shag
  • Chatham Island tomtit
  • Chatham Island tui
  • Forbes’ parakeet
  • King shag
  • Masked (blue-faced) booby
  • Pitt Island shag
  • Red-tailed tropicbird
  • South Island kaka
  • Southern falcon
  • Stitchbird
  • White-bellied storm petrel

Nationally vulnerable New Zealand birds

  • Auckland Island shag
  • Auckland Island teal
  • Banded dotterel/pohowera
  • Black petrel
  • Blue duck, whio
  • Bush falcon
  • Caspian tern/tarānui
  • Chatham Island snipe
  • Chatham Island warbler
  • Chatham petrel
  • Eastern falcon
  • Fiordland crested penguin, close up of head. Photo: Rosalind Cole.
    The nationally vulnerable Fiordland crested penguin

  • Fiordland crested penguin
  • Gibson’s albatross
  • Great spotted kiwi
  • New Zealand dabchick
  • North Island brown kiwi
  • North Island kaka
  • North Island kokako
  • North Island weka
  • Northern Fiordland tokoeka
  • Northern New Zealand dotterel
  • Pied shag
  • Red-billed gull
  • Reef heron
  • Rock wren
  • Salvin’s mollymawk
  • Southern crested grebe
  • Southern Fiordland tokoeka
  • Southern white-fronted tern
  • Stewart Island fernbird
  • Stewart Island robin
  • Stewart Island shag
  • Stewart Island tokoeka
  • Stewart Island weka
  • White-flippered blue penguin
  • Wrybill/ngutu pare
  • Yellow-eyed penguin/hoiho
  • Yellowhead/mohua

The New Zealand bird threat classifications on this page are from: Miskelly CM, Dowding JE, Elliot GP, Hitchmough RA, Powlesland RG, Robertson HA, Sagar PM, Scofield RP, Taylor GA 2008. Conservation status of New Zealand birds, 2008. Notornis 55: 117-135.

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