Pukeko are iconic to some and a pest to others, and Fish & Game is promoting the hunting and eating of the cheeky bird. Protected much of the year, pukeko can still be shot by those with a game bird ...

The swamp-loving pukeko has won Forest & Bird's annual Bird of the Year election. It won 1480 votes in what ended up as a two-bird race with the kakapo, which gained 1068 votes. Forest & Bird's ...

The often-maligned pukeko was the culinary champion at the annual Nelson Marlborough Fish & Game, game bird food night at Club Waimea on Sunday night. Club Waimea chef Phil Hazeldine wowed the eighty ...

Size matters a lot — or at least it does to a type of winged critter living in the South Pacific, a scientist at McMaster University says. Cody Dey spoke on CBC Radio One’s Quirks & Quarks last week ...

An inquiry is under way into how a cull of somewhat similar-looking pukeko birds has led to the slaughter of 5% of the wild population of takahē The head of New Zealand’s national deerstalkers’ ...