New research highlights the importance of New Zealand’s wetlands for one of our most secretive native birds, the Australasian bittern or matuku, Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage said today on ...

The matuku or Australasian bittern is so good at being undercover, that it is difficult to find and track. Photo / Imogen Warren The trial of a drone equipped with thermal imaging has successfully ...

An Australasian bittern (matuku-hūrepo), a rare wetland bird, had to be euthanised after being illegally shot near Ōpārau on Kāwhia Harbour. The Department of Conservation (DoC) is still on ...

A rare matuku-hūrepo/Australasian bittern was released into its wetland habitat at Lake Rotokawau, on the Poutō Peninsula of the Kaipara Harbour last Friday ...