The field guide to the birds of New Zealand / Barrie D. Heather & Hugh A. Robertson ; illustrated by Derek J. Onley.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Kiwi -- Grebes -- Albatrosses -- Shearwaters, fulmars, prions and petrels -- Storm petrels -- Penguins -- Tropicbirds -- Pelicans -- Gannets and boobies -- Shags -- Darters -- Frigatebirds -- Herons, egrets and bitterns -- Ibises and spoonbills -- Waterfowl -- Raptors -- Gamebirds -- Rails, gallinules and coots -- Cranes -- Painted snipe -- Oystercatchers -- Stilts and avocets -- Pratincoles and coursers -- Snipe, sandpipers, godwits and curlews -- Phalaropes -- Skuas -- Gulls, terns and noddies -- Pigeons and doves -- Cockatoos and parrots -- Cuckoos -- Typical owls -- Barn owls -- Swifts -- Kingfishers -- Rollers -- New Zealand wrens -- Larks -- Swallows and martins -- Pipits -- Cuckoo-shrikes and trillers -- Bulbuls -- Accentors -- Thrushes -- Old World warblers -- Whistlers and allies -- Australasian warblers -- Monarch flycatchers -- Australasian robins -- White-eyes -- Honey-eaters -- Buntings, cardinals and tanagers -- Finches -- Sparrows and weavers -- Starlings and mynas -- Wattlebirds -- Woodswallows -- Bell magpies -- Birds-of-paradise, bower-birds and piopio -- Crows and jays -- Where to see birds in New Zealand.