Birds 

Te Papa houses the world’s greatest collection of New Zealand birds, numbering over 70,000 specimens. Highlights from this collection include many irreplaceable specimens of extinct New Zealand birds and one of the world’s largest collections of oceanic birds.

If you wish to view the collection for research purposes, please call Te Papa to make an appointment. The collection is located at 169 Tory Street, Wellington.

  • Find out what to do if you come across one of the 1.25 million birds that have been banded around New Zealand.

Jean Claude Stahl and Buller's Albatross on Snares Islands

Tales from Te Papa

 

Albatross 

 

Watch the Albatross episode in the Tales from Te Papa series.

 

Tales from Te Papa is a series of short videos taking you behind the scenes – explore some of the intriguing, amazing, beautiful, and significant things that are in our collections.