Protected Birds List




APRIL 12] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 531

Shag—
Auckland Island shag (Phalacrocorax colensoi).
Blue shag (Stictocarbo steadi).
Bounty Island shag (Phalacrocorax ranfurlyi).
Bronze shag (Phalacrocorax chalconotus).
Campbell Island shag (Phalacrocorax campbelli).
Carunculated shag (Phalacrocorax carunculatus).
Chatham Island shag (Phalacrocorax featherstoni and Phalacrocorax onslowi).
Little Black shag (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris).
Spotted shag (Stictocarbo punctatus).
Stewart Island shag (Phalacrocorax stewarti and Phalacrocorax huttoni).

Shearwater (hakoakoa) (Puffinus reinholdi)—
Allied shearwater (Puffinus assimilis).
Long-tailed shearwater (Puffinus bulleri).
Pink-footed shearwater (Puffinus carneipes).
Wedged-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus).

Snipe—
Antipodes Island snipe (Gallinago Aucklandica tristrami).
Auckland Island snipe (Gallinago aucklandica).
Chatham Island snipe (Gallinago aucklandica pusilla).
Common snipe (Gallinago coelestis).
Snares Island snipe (Gallinago aucklandica huegeli).

Southern morganser (Merganser australis).

Starling (Sturnus vulgaris).

Stilt-plover—
Black stilt-plover (Hypsibates novae-zealandiae).
Pied stilt-plover (Hypsibates leucocephalus).

Stitch-bird (hihi) (Notiomystis cincta).

Swan—
White swan (Cygnus olor).
Takahe (Notornis hochstetteri).

Tern—
Black-fronted tern (tara) (Sterna albistriata).
Caspian tern (tara nui) (Hydroprogne caspia).
Grey noddy (Procelsterna caerulea).
Little tern (Sterna nereis).
Sooty tern (Sterna fuscata).
Swallow-tailed tern (Sterna vittata).
White-capped noddy (Megalopterus minutus).
White-fronted tern (tara) (Sterna striata).
White tern (Gygis alba).
White-winged black tern (Hydrochelidon leucoptera).

Thrush—
North Island thrush (piopio) (Turnagra tanagra).
South Island thrush (piopio) (Turnagra crassirostris).

Tomtit (miromiro)—
Auckland Island tomtit (Myiomoira macrocephala marrineri).
Chatham Island tomtit (Myiomoira macrocephala dieffenbachii).
North Island tomtit (Myiomoira toitoi).
South Island tomtit (Myiomoira macrocephala).

Tropic bird (raukura) (Phaethon rubricauda).

Turnstone (Morinella interpres).

Warbler—
Chatham Island warbler (Pseudogerygone albifrontata).
Grey warbler (riroriro) (Pseudogerygone igata).
Superb warbler (or blue wren) (Malurus cyanochlamys).

Woodhen—
Black woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus brachypterus).
Brown woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus australis).
North Island woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus australis greyi).
South Island woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus hectori).
Stewart Island woodhen (weka) (Gallirallus australis scotti).

Wren—
Blue wren (or superb warbler) (Malurus cyanochlamys).
Green wren (Xenicus longipes).
Rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris).
Stephen Island wren (Traversia lyalli).

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of April, 1951.

W. A. BODKIN, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Price 9d.] By Authority: R. E. OWEN, Government Printer, Wellington.



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11 April 1951
Protected birds, Species list, Conservation
  • W. A. Bodkin, Minister of Internal Affairs