News & Tips

In May we announced the winners of our inaugural Topflite photo competition, a great event we hoped our readers enjoyed as much as we did!

The New Zealand Garden Bird Survey is nearly here and with it the chance to do your part for this important citizen science initiative.

Now we’re in the depths of autumn it’s important to look after your place for the people (and birds) that live there. Yes, it’s time to keep an eagle eye on your property, and to get your ducks in a row, before the chickens come home to roost…

The kākāpō breeding season is always one of nervous anticipation for New Zealand’s conservationists and bird lovers. Topflite’s Ruby was on the ground this year and, over her two and a half week stay, she helped keep this important programme on track

Every now and then we get feedback on a product. We’re happy to say it’s nearly always positive. Very occasionally it’s negative and we’ll need to work to make it right with our customer. And sometimes… sometimes it’s just absolutely heartwarming...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Wait… oh yes, it’s a bird. Here are our five favourite high-flying heroes. Who did we miss?

Yes, we may be a little biased. But when it comes to getting the perfect Christmas present for the hard-to-buy-for we think there are some very excellent choices in wildbird feed and feeders.

 

Look to the skies by day or night, and you may spot one of New Zealand’s three native birds of prey searching for a meal.