Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo added to the New Zealand list

January 29th, 2025

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Aotearoa New Zealand is a long way from anywhere. Despite being 2,000 km from the nearest continent, vagrant land birds regularly find their way across the Tasman Sea – though some don’t quite make it. Bird curator Colin Miskelly describes the latest new species to come to grief on our shores.

Read more at https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2025/01/22/a-new-bird-for-new-zealand-horsfields-bronze-cuckoo/ and https://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/horsfield-s-bronze-cuckoo