Great news for local bird lovers — New Zealand's rarest endemic bird - fairy tern - has boost in numbers | RNZ News 🐦:
New Zealand's rarest endemic bird - the black-headed tara iti/fairy tern - has had a boost in numbers, according to the Department of Conservation.
The department (DOC) said a census at the end of March showed the population of the small coastal bird had increased about 15 percent.
It said compared to 1983 when there were only three to four breeding pairs - now, there were nearly 50 birds more than one-year-old in the wild and 11 breeding pairs.