Loss of forests brought new birds to NZ during the last Ice Age – we’re witnessing a similar process now
- Written by Pascale Lubbe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Ecology, University of Otago
Royal spoonbills are among several new species that have crossed the Tasman and naturalised in New Zealand. JJ Harrison/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAWhen people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great changes.
The landscape of today bears little resemblance to that of a mere...





