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HOW TO IDENTIFY NEW ZEALAND BIRDS 
List of Birds according to their usual 
haunts, either on land, sea, swamps, 
lagoons or rivers. 
It will be noted the majority belong to either one 
group or the other, but such birds as the Kingfisher 
and Dottrel, ete., cannot be relegated strictly to one 
group, but can be found in many localities. 
LAND BIRDS 
«Australian Magpie 
- Australian Swamp Quail 
*Bellbird 
+ Blackbird 
Black Fantail 
Black Woodhen 
Blue Wattled Crow 
*Bush Hawk 
*Californian Quail 
Cirl Bunting 
*Chaffinch 
* Dottrel (N.Z.) and+* Banded 
* Greenfinch 
Green Wren 
*Grey Warbler 
"Goldfinch 
*Gould’s Harrier 
Hedge Sparrow 
‘House Sparrow 
Huia 
*Kaka 
Kea 
‘Kingfisher 
Laughing Owl 
«Linnet 
Little Brown Owl 
Little Grey Kiwi 
Long Tailed Cuckoo 
*Minah or Myna 
* Morepork 
N.I. 
N.I. 
N.I. 
Kiwi 
Robin 
Thrush 
‘NI. 
N.Z. 
*N.Z. 
‘N.Z. 
Woodhen -(brown) 
Creeper 
Pigeon 
Pipit 
Orange Wattled Crow 
Owl Parrot 
*Pheasant 
*Pied Fantail 
«Pied or White-breasted Tit 
Quail Hawk 
Redfronted Parakeet 
Redpole 
Rifleman 
Rock Wren 
Rook 
