Bringing the tūī back to town – how native birds are returning to NZ’s restored urban forests

  • Written by: Elizabeth Elliot Noe, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Bringing the tūī back to town – how native birds are returning to NZ’s restored urban forestsShutterstock/SCurtis

Urbanisation, and the destruction of habitat it entails, is a major threat to native bird populations. But as our new research shows, restored urban forests can return native birds to our cities and improve species richness.

A path through a forested urban parkThe older the restored forest, the more native bird species it can support.Shutterstock/Dmitry Naumov

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