Kuiornis

Kuiornis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Acanthisittidae
Genus:	†Kuiornis Worthy et al., 2010
Species:	†K. indicator
Binomial name
†Kuiornis indicator Worthy et al., 2010

Kuiornis indicator is an extinct New Zealand wren (Acanthisittidae) known from the early Miocene (19–16 million years ago) St Bathans fauna in Central Otago. It is known from a holotype proximal right tarsometatarsus (NMNZ S.50929). Amongst acanthisittids it is most closely related to the living rifleman.^[1]

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Birds of New Zealand

Common
birds

• Bellbird (korimako)
• Black-billed gull (tarāpuka)
• Brown creeper (pipipi)
• Brown teal (pāteke)
• Buff-banded rail (moho-pererū)
• Dabchick (weweia)
• Double-banded plover (pohowera)
• New Zealand falcon (kārearea)
• Fantail (pīwakawaka)
• Grey warbler (riroriro)
• Grey-faced petrel (ōi)
• Sacred kingfisher (kōtare)
• Long-tailed cuckoo (koekoeā)
• Kererū
• Pipit (pīhoihoi)
• New Zealand dotterel (tūturiwhatu)
• South Island robin
• North Island robin
• New Zealand scaup (pāpango)
• Paradise shelduck (pūtangitangi)
• Pūkeko
• Rifleman (tītipounamu)
• New Zealand rock wren (pīwauwau)
• Shining cuckoo (pīpīwharauroa)
• Silvereye (tauhou)
• South Island oystercatcher (tōrea)
• Spotted shag (pārekareka)
• Tomtit (miromiro)
• Tūī
• Variable oystercatcher (tōrea pango)
• White-fronted tern (tara)
• Whitehead (pōpokotea)
• Wrybill (ngutuparore)

Flightless
birds

• Great spotted kiwi (roroa)
• Little spotted kiwi (kiwi pukupuku)
• North Island brown kiwi (roroa)
• Okarito kiwi (rowi)
• Southern brown kiwi (tokoeka)
• Yellow-eyed penguin (hoiho)
• Kākāpō
• South Island takahē
• Fiordland penguin (tawaki)
• Weka
• Blue penguin (kororā)

Endangered
endemic birds
(flying)

• Black-fronted tern (tarapiroe)
• Black stilt (kakī)
• Blue duck (whio)
• Fernbird (mātātā)
• Foveaux shag
• Kākā
• Kea
• North Island kōkako
• South Island kōkako
• New Zealand fairy tern (tara-iti)
• New Zealand king shag (kawau tūī)
• New Zealand storm petrel (takahikare)
• Northern royal albatross
• Otago shag (Matapo)
• Orange-fronted parakeet (kākāriki karaka)
• Red-billed gull (tarāpunga)
• North Island saddleback (tīeke)
• South Island saddleback (tīeke)
• Shore plover (tūturuatu)
• Stitchbird (hihi)
• Yellowhead (mōhua)

Chatham Islands
birds

• Black robin (karure)
• Chatham albatross (toroa)
• Chatham gerygone
• Chatham oystercatcher (tōrea)
• Chatham parakeet
• Chatham petrel (ranguru)
• Chatham pigeon (parea)
• Chatham shag (papua)
• Chatham snipe
• Magenta petrel (tāiko)
• Pitt shag (kawau o rangihaute)

Subantarctic islands
birds

• Antipodean albatross (Toroa)
• Auckland rail
• Auckland shag
• Auckland teal (tētē kākāriki)
• Antipodes parakeet
• Bounty shag
• Campbell albatross
• Campbell shag
• Campbell teal
• Erect-crested penguin (tawaki nana hī)
• Reischek's parakeet
• Snares snipe
• Snares penguin (pokotiwha)
• Subantarctic snipe (tutukiwi)

Extinct
birds

• South Island piopio (piopio)
• New Zealand bittern (kaoriki)
• New Zealand quail (koreke)
• Huia
• Haast's eagle
• Moa
• North Island adzebill
• South Island adzebill
• Auckland Island merganser (rakiraki maungahuka)
• Chatham Island merganser
• Bushwren (mātuhituhi)
• Long-billed wren
• South Island stout-legged wren
• North Island stout-legged wren
• Lyall's wren
• Chatham kākā
• Laughing owl (whēkau)
• Chatham penguin
• Waitaha penguin
• Eyles' harrier (kērangi)
• North Island little spotted kiwi
• North Island snipe
• South Island snipe
• Forbes's snipe
• Snipe-rail
• Imber's petrel
• Scarlett's shearwater (ōiruki)
• North Island takahē (moho)
• New Zealand goose
• Finsch's duck (manutahora)
• New Zealand owlet-nightjar (ruru hinapō)
• New Zealand musk duck
• New Zealand swan (poūwa)