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New Zealand Species Count
There are very few of some species remaining. If you would like to learn why New Zealand has such a high rate of threatened species, read the 'Threatened' fact sheet on this website. The species count list below is in
alphabetical order. (The number after the name is the
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Black robin - 2000 = 250-300 Black stilt (kaki) - 2000 = 80 Brown teal - 1997 = around 1000 on Great Barrier Island (also small, declining populations in Northland and Fiordland). Campbell Island teal - 2000 = 50-100 (Campbell Island teal is the rarest and most geographically confined duck in the world. It is found only on Dent Island, part of the Campbell Island group, New Zealand.) Chatham Islands oystercatcher - 2000 = 100 Dotterel - Southern New Zealand (Stewart Island) = 60 Fairy tern - 2000 = 36 Hamilton's frog - 2000 = 300 Hector's dolphin - 2002 = North Island 100, South Island 7000-7500 Kakapo - total count June 2002 = 86 Kea - 2000 = estimated population 1000-5000 Kiwi - 2000 = Great Spotted 20,000, Haast tokoeka 200-250, Little Spotted 1200, North Island brown 31,000, Okarito brown 160, Southern tokoeka 26,000 Kokako - 2000 = fewer than 400 pairs Magenta Petrel (taiko) - June 2002 = 100 - 150 birds (total population found on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand) New Zealand fur seal - 2000 = 60,000 New Zealand sea lion (Hooker's) - 2000 = 12-14,000 Saddleback - 2000 = 5000 Takahe - total adult count 1999/2000 season = 221 Tuatara - 2001 = Cook Strait tuatara 45,000-60,000, Northern tuatara 10,000, Brother's Island tuatara 300-400 Yellow-eyed penguin (Hoiho) - 2001 = 700 in South Island, 2000-3000 on New Zealand's offshore islands |
Learn more about New
Zealand Threatened Species
The Species Count information
was updated in June 2002.
