State of NZ Garden Birds 2025 | Reports

Birds act as 'backyard barometers' - telling us about the health of the environment we live in. They are signalling significant changes in our environment over the past 10- and 5-year periods. We should be listening. Using cutting-edge techniques, the Bioeconomy Science Institute Maiangi Taiao has distilled a substantial information base - bird counts gathered by New Zealanders from more than 51,000 garden surveys since 2015 - into simple but powerful metrics. Explore how bird counts have changed nationally and in your region since 2015. Citation: Hayman E, Brandt AJ, MacLeod CJ, Howard S, Diprose G, Gormley AM, Spurr EB. 2026. State of NZ Garden Birds 2025 | Te Āhua o ngā Manu o te Kāri i Aotearoa. Bioeconomy Science Institute - Maiangi Taiao, Lincoln. ISSN 2744-5267.

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Publisher Bioeconomy Science Institute
Publication Year 2026
Authors
  1. Hayman, Ella
  2. Brandt, Angela J.
  3. MacLeod, Catriona J.
  4. Howard, Simon
  5. Diprose, Gradon
  6. Gormley, Andrew M.
  7. Spurr, Eric B.
Maintainer Angela J. Brandt
Start Date 2015
End Date 2025