Here is a full listing of New Zealand bird species with notes on where they may be found.
|
Common name
|
Population
|
Status
|
Where found
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern brown kiwi | 35,000 | Uncommon | Northland, Tawharanui, Marsden Cross Kerikeri |
| Okarito brown kiwi (Rowi) | 350 | Rare | Okarito |
| Southern brown kiwi | 35,000 | Uncommon | Fiordland |
| Little spotted kiwi | 1,500 | Rare | Karori Sanctuary, Kapiti Island |
| Great spotted kiwi | 17,000 | Uncommon | NW Nelson, Arthurs Pass |
| Australian Crested Grebe | 350 | Uncommon | Lake Pearson, Lake Forsyth, Lake Alexandrina, Lake Heron |
| Dabchick (NZ Grebe) | Uncommon | Otaki oxidations ponds, Mangere sewerage ponds, NI lakes | |
| Hoary headed grebe | Rare native | Breeding at Lake Elterwater | |
| Australasian little grebe |
150
|
Rare | Lakes Ototoa, Kerata, Rotokawau, Ngatu. Ormiston Rd near Waipu. |
| Snowy (Wandering) albatross | Uncommon | Sub-antarctic Is | |
| Gibsons (Wandering) albatross | 26,000 | Locally common | Kaikoura |
| Antipodean (Wandering) albatross | Rare | Sub-antarctic Is | |
| Southern Royal Albatross | 17,500 | Locally common | Kaikoura |
| Northern Royal Albatross | 17,000 | Locally common | Tairoa head, Chatham Islands |
| Laysan Albatross | Vagrant | ||
| Black browed Albatross | 150,000 | Common | Kaikoura, Cook Strait |
| Campbell Albatross | Common | Campbell Island | |
| Bullers Albatross | 64,000 | Common | Kaikoura, Cook Strait |
| White-capped Albatross | 150,000 | Common | Kaikoura, Cook Strait |
| Salvins Albatross | 26,000 | Common | Kaikoura |
| Chatham Island Albatross | Rare | Chatham Islands | |
| Atlantic yellow-nosed Albatross | Vagrant | ||
| Indian yellow-nosed Albatross | Uncommon | ||
| Grey-headed Albatross | Locally common | ||
| Sooty Albatross | Vagrant | ||
| Light mantled Sooty Albatross | Uncommon | NI west coast | |
| Corys shearwater | Vagrant | ||
| Streaked shearwater | Vagrant | (One NZ record 2006) | |
| Pink-footed shearwater | Vagrant | ||
| Flesh-footed shearwater | 150,000 | Common | Hauraki gulf |
| Wedge-tailed shearwater | Locally common | Northland | |
| Bullers shearwater | 2,500,000 | Common | Widespread at sea |
| Sooty shearwater | 3,000,000 | Common | Widespread at sea |
| Short-tailed shearwater | Common | Widespread at sea | |
| Great shearwater | Vagrant | (3 NZ records) | |
| Christmas Island shearwater | Vagrant | ||
| Manx shearwater | Vagrant | ||
| Fluttering shearwater | 100,000 | Common | Cook strait, Hauraki gulf, coastal waters around NZ |
| Huttons shearwater | 180,000 | Locally common | Kaikouras, Cook strait |
| Little shearwater | Common | Out at sea, sedentary | |
| Subantarctic Little shearwater | Locally common | Chathams and South Atlantic | |
| Newells shearwater | Vagrant | ||
| Common diving petrel | Common | Cook strait | |
| South Georgian diving petrel | Vagrant | All NZ records are probably the new Whenua Hou Diving Petrel endemic | |
| Whenua Hou diving petrel | 150 | Rare endemic | Codfish Island |
| Black (Parkinsons) petrel | Uncommon | Little/Great Barrier | |
| Westland petrel | 4,000 | Uncommon | Cook Strait |
| White-chinned petrel | 7,000,000 | Uncommon | South of Foveaux strait |
| Bulwers petrel | Vagrant | ||
| Tahiti petrel | Vagrant | ||
| Kerguelen petrel | Uncommon | ||
| Snow petrel | Locally common | ||
| Cape petrel (pigeon) | 2,000,000 | Common | Kaikoura, Cook Strait |
| Antarctic petrel | Locally common | Antarctic | |
| Antarctic fulmar | Locally common | ||
| Southern giant petrel | 97,000 | Common | Kaikoura |
| Northern giant petrel | 20,000 | Common | Kaikoura |
| Fairy prion | 5,000,000 | Common | Cook strait |
| Fulmar prion | Locally common | Southern islands | |
| Thin-billed prion | Common | ||
| Antarctic prion | Locally common | ||
| Salvin’s prion | Locally common | ||
| Broad-billed prion | Common | Foveaux Strait | |
| Blue petrel | Uncommon | ||
| Stejneger’s petrel | Vagrant | ||
| Pycroft’s petrel | Rare | Little/Great Barrier | |
| New Caledonian (Gould’s) petrel | Uncommon | ||
| Cook’s petrel | Uncommon | Little/Great Barrier, Hauraki gulf | |
| Black-winged petrel | Common | ||
| Chatham Island petrel | Rare | Chatham Islands | |
| Mottled petrel | Common | South Island | |
| White-naped petrel | Uncommon | Kermadecs | |
| Juan Fernandez petrel | Vagrant | ||
| Phoenix petrel | Vagrant | ||
| Kermadec petrel | Locally common | Kermadecs | |
| Providence petrel | Vagrant | ||
| Grey-faced (Great-winged) petrel | Common | Kaikoura | |
| Chatham Island Taiko (Magenta petrel) | 150 | Rare | Chathams |
| White-headed petrel | Locally common | Out at sea | |
| Soft-plumaged petrel | Uncommon | Southern oceans | |
| Leach’s storm petrel | Vagrant | ||
| Wilson’s storm petrel | Locally common | Antarctic | |
| Kermadec storm petrel | Uncommon | Kermadec Islands | |
| NZ storm petrel | Rare | Hauraki gulf | |
| Grey-backed storm petrel | Locally common | Southern oceans | |
| NZ White-faced storm petrel | Common | Hauraki gulf | |
| Black-bellied storm petrel | Locally common | Southern islands | |
| White-bellied storm petrel | Rare | Kermadecs | |
| Emperor penguin | Uncommon | Antarctic | |
| King penguin | Uncommon | Antarctic | |
| Yellow-eyed penguin | 4,000 | Uncommon | Katiki Point, Sandfly bay, Pohatu bay, Curio bay, Roaring bay |
| Gentoo penguin | Vagrant | ||
| Adelie penguin | Locally common | ||
| Chinstrap penguin | Rare | Antarctic | |
| Little penguin | Common | Cook Strait | |
| White Flippered Penguin (Little penguin sub-species) | 7,500 | Locally common | Akaroa peninsula |
| Western rockhopper penguin | Vagrant | ||
| Eastern rockhopper penguin | Locally common | Southern islands | |
| Moseley’s rockhopper penguin | Vagrant | ||
| Macaroni penguin | Vagrant | Subantarctic Is | |
| Royal penguin | Vagrant | Subantarctic Is | |
| Fiordland (NZ) crested penguin | 5,000 | Rare | Fiordland, Monro Beach, Stewart Island |
| Snares crested penuin | Locally common | Snares Is | |
| Erect-crested penguin | Locally common | Bounty/Antipodes | |
| Magellanic penguin | Vagrant | ||
| Red-tailed tropicbird | Rare | Kermadecs, Norfolk Is | |
| White-tailed tropicbird | Vagrant | ||
| Australian pelican | Rare/Vagrant | Kaipara harbour | |
| Cape gannet | Vagrant | ||
| Australasian gannet | Common | Widespread round coastline | |
| Brown booby | Vagrant | Tropics north of NZ; Muriwai gannet colony | |
| Masked booby | Locally common | Kermadecs | |
| Great cormorant (Black shag) | Common | Common | |
| Pied cormorant | Locally common | Common | |
| Little black cormorant | Locally common | Common | |
| Little shag | Common | Common | |
| Stewart Island shag | Locally common | Stewart Island, Dunedin | |
| King shag | 800 | Rare | Marlborough Sounds |
| Chatham Island shag | Locally common | Chatham Island | |
| Bounty Island shag | Locally common | Bounty Island | |
| Auckland Island shag | Locally common | Auckland Island | |
| Campbell Island shag | Locally common | Campbell Island | |
| Macquarie Island shag | Locally common | Macquarie Island | |
| Spotted shag | Locally common | Coromandel, Cook Strait, Matingarahi | |
| Pitt Island shag | Locally common | Pitt Island | |
| Darter (anhinga) | Vagrant | (1 NZ record in the 1800’s) | |
| Great frigatebird | Vagrant | ||
| Lesser frigatebird | Vagrant | ||
| White-faced Heron | Common | Common | |
| Little egret | Uncommon | Haumoana near Napier | |
| Eastern Reef Heron | Uncommon | Northern coastline, Wellington south coast | |
| White-necked (Pacific) heron | Vagrant | ||
| White heron (Great Egret) | 140 | Uncommon | Okarito. Winter: Lake Ellesmere, Miranda, Foxton estuary |
| Intermediate (Plumed) egret | Vagrant | ||
| Eastern Cattle egret | Locally common | Waikato, Whangaehu, Foxton estuary, Lake Horowhenua | |
| Nankeen night heron | 45 | Rare | Whanganui River |
| Australasian bittern | Rare | Whangamarino swamp | |
| Little bittern | Vagrant | ||
| Glossy ibis | Rare/vagrant | Wairua oxidation ponds; Travis wetland, Foxton estuary; Little Waihi. Being seen in NZ in greater numbers, has now bred. | |
| Straw Necked Ibis | Vagrant | (1 NZ record) | |
| Australian white ibis | Vagrant | ||
| Royal spoonbill | Locally common | Wairau lagoon, Kapiti Island, Waikanae, Manukau walkay, Miranda, Unahi | |
| Yellow-billed spoonbill | Vagrant | ||
| Plumed whistling-duck | Vagrant | Pair in Anderson Park, Napier | |
| Mute swan | Rare | Hawkes Bay, Lake Ellesmere | |
| Black swan | Common | Common | |
| Feral (greylag) goose | Common | Common | |
| Swan (African) goose | Locally common | Domestic, Foxton pond off Palmer Road | |
| Canada goose | Common | Common | |
| Cape Barren goose | Rare | St Annes lagoon near Cheviot | |
| Chestnut Breasted shelduck | Rare | NE SI, Lake Ellesmere, Miranda | |
| Paradise shelduck | Common | Common | |
| Australian wood (maned) duck | Rare native | Breeding at Mapua near Nelson. | |
| Blue duck | 1,100 | Uncommon | W SI, Central NI, Ruatiti Domain. Turangi river near SH1 bridge. |
| Mallard | Common | Common | |
| Grey Duck (Pacific Black Duck) | Uncommon | (Most are Mallard/Grey Duck hybrids) | |
| Grey teal | Common | Otaki oxidation ponds, Mangere sewerage ponds, Lake Alexandrina | |
| Chestnut teal | Vagrant | ||
| Brown teal | 1,300 | Rare | Waikanae, Karori sanctuary, Whangapoua estuary, Teal Bay and Mimiwhangata, Tiritiri Matangi, Miranda |
| Auckland Island teal | Rare | (Auckland Island) | |
| Campbell Island teal | Rare | (Campbell Island) | |
| Australasian shoveler | Common | Otaki oxidation ponds, Mangere sewerage ponds | |
| Northern shoveler | Vagrant | ||
| Northern pintail | Vagrant | ||
| Muscovy Duck | Locally common | Domestic | |
| Pekin Duck | Locally common | Domestic | |
| Pink-eared Duck | Vagrant | ||
| White-eyed duck (Hardhead) | Vagrant | ||
| NZ Scaup | Uncommon | Waikanae lagoons, Western Springs, south end Lake Taupo | |
| Black kite | Vagrant | Renwick, Blenheim | |
| Swamp (Australasian) harrier | Common | Common | |
| White bellied sea eagle | Vagrant | (? any NZ records) | |
| New Zealand falcon | Uncommon | Boundary Island (south of King Country-BoP in NI, all SI) | |
| Black falcon | Vagrant | (1 NZ record) | |
| Nakeen (Australaian) kestrel | Vagrant | ||
| Chukor | Locally common | SI hill country, Hawkes Bay, Mt John (Lake Tekapo) | |
| Red-legged partridge | Rare | SI hill country, Hawkes Bay, Pirongia | |
| Grey partridge | Extinct | Invercargill | |
| Brown quail | Locally common | Northland including Tiritiri Matangi, Mangawhai | |
| Feral chicken (red junglefowl) | Locally common | Kerikeri, Lake Horowhenua | |
| Common (ring-necked) pheasant | Common | Mainly NI | |
| Golden pheasant | Rare | Aroha Island, Kerikeri, Akaroa peninsula | |
| Indian peafowl (peacock) | Uncommon | Northland, Hawkes Bay, Whanganui river | |
| Wild turkey | Locally common | NI | |
| California quail | Common | Widespread | |
| Northern bobwhite | Extinct | Previously Hawkes Bay, Invercargill | |
| Helmeted (Tufted) guineafowl | Rare | Northland, Waikato, Wanganui | |
| Weka | Locally common | Gisborne, NW SI, Kawau, Kawakawa Bay | |
| Buff-banded (banded) rail | Locally common | Northland, northern SI, Great Barrier Island, Aroha Island , Miranda, Bay of Plenty | |
| Auckland Island rail | Locally common | Auckland Is | |
| Baillon’s (marsh) crake | Locally common | SI marshes, Coopers lagoon near Lake Ellesmere | |
| Spotless crake | Locally common | NI marshes, Rotokura (Ohakune), Pukepuke lagoon (Manawatu), Tiritiri Matangi Island | |
| Pukeko (purple swamphen) | Common | ||
| South Island Takahe | 280 | Rare | Tiritiri Matangi, Kapiti Island, Mt Bruce, Karori Sanctuary |
| Dusky moorhen | Vagrant | ||
| Black-tailed native-hen | Vagrant | ||
| Australian coot | Locally common | Chelsea Ponds, Western Springs, Lake Tutira | |
| Latham’s (Japanese) snipe | Vagrant | ||
| Chatham Island snipe | Locally common | Chatham Is | |
| Snares Island snipe | Locally common | Snares Is | |
| Iredale’s (Stewart Island) snipe | Extinct | ||
| Sub-antarctic snipe | Locally common | Auckland & Antipodes Islands | |
| Black-tailed godwit | Vagrant | ||
| Hudsonian godwit | Vagrant | Miranda | |
| Eastern Bar-tailed godwit | Common | Miranda, Foxton Estuary, Manukau and Kaipara harbours, Kawakawa Bay, Mangawhai | |
| Little whimbrel | Vagrant | ||
| Whimbrel | Uncommon | Thames, Farewell Spit, Ohiwa harbour | |
| Bristle-thighed curlew | Vagrant | ||
| Eastern curlew | Uncommon | Thames, Farewell Spit, Miranda, Kaipara harbour | |
| Upland sandpiper | Vagrant | ||
| Marsh sandpiper | Uncommon | Lake Grassmere | |
| Common greenshank | Uncommon | ||
| Lesser yellowlegs | Vagrant | ||
| Terek sandpiper | Uncommon | Lake Ellesmere | |
| Common sandpiper | Vagrant | ||
| Grey-tailed (Siberian) tattler | Uncommon | Ahuriri Estuary, Ashley River mouth | |
| Wandering tattler | Uncommon | ||
| Ruddy turnstone | Common | Miranda, Foxton Estuary, Kaikoura, Mangawhai | |
| Asian dowitcher | Vagrant | ||
| Great knot | Vagrant | ||
| Red (lesser) knot | Common | Miranda, Foxton Estuary | |
| Sanderling | Vagrant | ||
| Western sandpiper | Vagrant | ||
| Little stint | Vagrant | (Lake Ellesmere) | |
| Red-necked stint | Common | Miranda, Lake Ellesmere, Birdlings flat | |
| Long-toed stint | Vagrant | ||
| White-rumped sandpiper | Vagrant | ||
| Baird’s sandpiper | Vagrant | ||
| Pectoral sandpiper | Vagrant | Lake Ellesmere | |
| Sharp-tailed sandpiper |
50
|
Uncommon | Miranda, Lake Ellesmere |
| Dunlin | Vagrant | ||
| Curlew sandpiper |
50
|
Uncommon | Miranda, Foxton Estuary |
| Least sandpiper | Vagrant | (Possible NZ record) | |
| Semi-palmated sandpiper | Vagrant | (1 NZ record Big Sand island) | |
| Stilt sandpiper | Vagrant | ||
| Buff-breasted sandpiper | Vagrant | (1 NZ record, Kaipara) | |
| Broad-billed sandpiper | Vagrant | ||
| Ruff | Vagrant | (Maketu) | |
| Wilson’s phalarope | Vagrant | 4 NZ records (all non-breeding plumage) | |
| Red-necked phalarope | Vagrant | ||
| Grey (red) phalarope | Vagrant | ||
| Painted snipe | Vagrant | ||
| South Island oystercatcher | Common | Widespread, Foxton estuary, Miranda, Farewell Spit | |
| Variable oystercatcher | Uncommon | Widespread, Petone beach | |
| Chatham Island oystercatcher | 350 | Rare | Chatham Island |
| Pied stilt | Common | Common | |
| Black stilt |
200
|
Rare | MacKenzie basin, Ashley river mouth |
| Red-necked avocet | Vagrant | ||
| Pacific golden plover | Common | Miranda, Foxton estuary | |
| American golden plover | Vagrant | ||
| Grey plover | Vagrant | (Mangere, Big Sand Island) | |
| New Zealand plover (dotterel) | 1,500 | Uncommon | Northern NZ, Bay of Plenty beaches |
| Ringed plover | Vagrant | ||
| Semi-palmated plover | Vagrant | (One seen at Mangere) | |
| Red-capped dotterel | Vagrant | ||
| Banded dotterel | Common | Waikanae, Lake Wairarapa | |
| Auckland Island banded dotterel | Locally common | ||
| Lesser sand (Mongolian) plover | Vagrant | ||
| Greater sand plover | Vagrant | ||
| Oriental plover | Vagrant | ||
| Black-fronted dotterel | Locally common | Lower NI, SI east coast, Mangere-Puketutu causeway, Otaki oxidation ponds, north end Lake Wairarapa | |
| Red-kneed dotterel | Vagrant | ||
| Shore plover | 250 | Rare | South East Is (Chathams) |
| Wrybill | 7,500 | Locally common | Foxton Beach, Miranda, Manukau harbour |
| Masked lapwing (spur-winged plover) | Common | Common | |
| Oriental pratinole | Vagrant | ||
| Brown skua | Locally common | Southern oceans, Stewart Island | |
| South Polar skua | Locally common | Antarctica | |
| Pomarine jaeger | Vagrant | Manawatu estuary | |
| Parasitic jaeger (Arctic skua) | Common | Cook Strait, between mainland and Mana Island (summer) | |
| Long-tailed jaeger | Vagrant | ||
| Southern Black-backed gull | Common | Common | |
| Pacific Gull | Vagrant | (Possible NZ record) | |
| Red-billed gull | Common | Common | |
| Black-billed gull | Common | Henley lake, Ahuriri, Lake Ellesmere, McKenzie Basin, Aspiring national park, Miranda, Rotorua | |
| Franklin’s gull | Vagrant | ||
| Gull-billed tern | Vagrant | Lake Ellesmere | |
| Caspian tern | Uncommon | Common | |
| Crested tern | Vagrant | ||
| White-fronted tern | Common | Common | |
| Eastern Common tern | Vagrant | Foxton estuary | |
| Arctic tern | Vagrant | Stewart Island | |
| Antarctic tern | Locally common | Antarctic islands | |
| Eastern Little tern | Uncommon | Miranda, Foxton, Otaki beach | |
| NZ Fairy tern | 42 | Rare | Mangawhai, Waipu, Kaipara harbour |
| Sooty tern | Locally common | Kermadecs | |
| Grey backed tern | Vagrant | (2 NZ records) | |
| Bridled tern | Vagrant | ||
| Black-fronted tern | Uncommon | Ashley river, Wairau river, Cook Strait | |
| Whiskered tern | Vagrant | ||
| White-winged black tern | Uncommon | Lake Ellesmere, Nelson | |
| Common (brown) noddy | Rare | Kermadecs | |
| Black noddy (white capped noddy) | Locally common | Kermadecs | |
| Grey ternlet (grey noddy) | Locally common | Kermadec Is; Mokohinau rocks | |
| White tern | Rare | Kermadec Is | |
| NZ pigeon | Common | eg Otari-Wilton bush, Kapiti Island | |
| Chatham Island pigeon | Locally common | Chatham Island | |
| Rock (feral) pigeon | Common | Common | |
| African (Barbary) collared-dove | 500 | Rare | South Auckland, Puketutu, Mangawhai |
| Spotted dove | Uncommon | Greater Auckland area including Whenuapai; Opotiki, Whakatane | |
| Australian Crested pigeon | 50 | Rare | Christchurch city, Kerikeri |
| Galah | 200 | Rare | Ponui Island, Mangatawhiri (winter only) |
| Sulphur-crested cockatoo | 500 | Uncommon | Waikato, Turakina, Kapiti coast, Waitakere’s, Nikau Valley Paraparaumu |
| Kakapo | 135 | Very rare | Fiordland, Codfish Island |
| NZ kaka | Locally common | Karori sanctuary, Kapiti Island, Nelson Lakes, Greater Auckland area | |
| Kea | 5,000 | Locally common | Arthurs Pass |
| Scaly breasted Lorikeet | Vagrant | (2 North Shore, Auckland) | |
| Rainbow Lorikeet | Introduced cage bird | Occasional cage escape | |
| Crimson rosella | 0 | Extinct | Once in Wellington botanic gardens |
| Eastern rosella | Locally common | Karori cemetery, Takapua Road, greater Auckland area | |
| Red-crowned parakeet | Locally common | Somes Island, Kapiti Island, Tiritiri Matangi, Motuhie, Little Barrier | |
| Hochstetter’s/Reischek’s parakeet | Locally common | Antipodes Island | |
| Yellow-crowned parakeet | Locally common | Forests, Mana Island | |
| Orange-fronted parakeet | 200 | Rare | Hurunui, Hawdon, Poulter valleys; Maud Is, Blumine Is |
| Forbes parakeet | 500 | Locally common | Chatham Islands |
| Antipodes parakeet | Locally common | Subantarctic islands | |
| Oriental cuckoo | Vagrant | ||
| Pallid cuckoo | Vagrant | ||
| Fan-tailed cuckoo | Vagrant | ||
| Shining bronze-cuckoo | Common | Karori sanctuary | |
| Common koel | Vagrant | ||
| Long-tailed cuckoo | Locally common | Boundary Stream, Pureora, Great Barrier, Little Barrier, Ureweras | |
| Channel-billed cuckoo | Vagrant | ||
| Morepork | Common | Common, Kiriwhakapapa, Owlcatraz Shannon | |
| Little owl | Locally common | South Island | |
| Barn owl |
30
|
Rare native | Kaitaia self-introduced and breeding |
| White-throated needletail | Vagrant | ||
| Fork-tailed swift | Vagrant | ||
| Laughing kookaburra | Rare | Orewa, Matakana, Whangarei | |
| Sacred kingfisher | Common | Common | |
| Dollarbird | Vagrant | ||
| Rifleman | Locally common | Bell Rock, Boundary Island reserve; Arthurs Pass; Eastbourne hills | |
| Stead’s bush wren | 0 | Extinct | Extinct |
| Rock Wren | 5,000 | Uncommon | Homer Tunnel; Otira valley Arthurs Pass |
| Skylark | Common | Common | |
| Welcome swallow | Common | Common | |
| Tree martin | Vagrant | ||
| Fairy martin | Vagrant | ||
| Australian reed warbler | Vagrant | ||
| New Zealand Pipit | Uncommon | Open country; Wellington south coast, Auckland west coast beaches | |
| Chatham Island Pipit | Locally common | Chatham Island | |
| Sub-antarctic pipit | Locally common | Subantarctic Islands | |
| Black-faced cuckoo-shrike | Vagrant | ||
| White-winged Triller | Vagrant | ||
| Red-vented bulbul | 0 | Extinct | Previously Auckland gardens |
| Dunnock | Common | Common (not round Auckland region) | |
| Common blackbird | Common | Common | |
| Song Thrush | Common | Common | |
| New Zealand Fernbird | Locally common | Central NI, Tokaanu wharf, Nukuhou marshland | |
| Whitehead | Locally common | Tiritiri Matangi, Waitakere cascades, Kapiti Island, Mt Bruce | |
| Yellowhead | Rare | Fiordland, Ulva Island, Arthurs Pass, Catlins River Walk, Double Barrel Track at the old Routeburn shelter | |
| NZ Brown Creeper | Locally common | SI bush | |
| Grey warbler | Common | Common | |
| Chatham Island warbler | Locally common | Chatham Is | |
| Black-faced monarch | Vagrant | ||
| Satin flycatcher | Vagrant | ||
| Grey (New Zealand) fantail | Common | Common. Black phase only in South Island. | |
| Willie wagtail | Vagrant | ||
| Tomtit | Common | Mangaone, Arthurs Pass, Kiriwhakapapa, Waitakere cascades, volcanic plateau | |
| NI Robin | Uncommon | Karori Sanctuary, Pureora, Motuara Is, Ark in the Park, Wenderholm, Tiritiri Matangi | |
| SI Robin | Uncommon | Okarito, Stewart Island, Ulva Island, Kaikoura | |
| Chatham Island Black Robin | 250 | Rare | Chathams Is (Mangere and South East Is) |
| Silvereye (waxeye) | Common | Common | |
| Stitchbird | 3,000 | Rare | Karori Sanctuary, Kapiti Island, Tiritiri Matangi |
| NZ Bellbird | Common | ||
| Tui | Common | Common | |
| Yellowhammer | Common | Common | |
| Cirl bunting | Uncommon | Kaikoura, Blenheim, Halswell Quarry Christchurch | |
| Chaffinch | Common | Common | |
| Greenfinch | Common | Common | |
| Goldfinch | Common | Common | |
| Redpoll | Common | Common (not round Auckland region) | |
| House sparrow | Common | Common | |
| Starling | Common | Common | |
| Common Myna | Locally common | Common north of Wanganui | |
| North Island Kokako | 1,750 | Rare | Kapiti Island, Pureora, Mt Bruce, Tititiri Matangi, Ark in the Park |
| South Island Kokako | 0 | Extinct | Probably extinct though recent unconfirmed reports are encouraging |
| NI Saddleback | 3,600 | Rare | Karori Sanctuary, Kapiti Island, Tiritiri Matangi, Motuhie |
| SI Saddleback |
3,600
|
Rare | Ulva Island, Motuara Island |
| Masked woodswallow | Vagrant | ||
| White-browed woodswallow | Vagrant | ||
| Australian magpie | Common | Common | |
| Rook | 35,000 | Locally common | Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa near Eketahuna, Miranda |
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