🇳🇿 Animals of New Zealand

The aurochs was the wild ox of Europe, North Africa and much of Asia, and the ancestor of domestic cattle.

The Australian magpie is a black and white songbird of open country in Australia and southern New Guinea.

The black swan is a large Australian waterbird with black plumage, white flight feathers and a bright red bill.

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.

The brown rat is a large, burrowing rodent that lives wherever people live.

The budgerigar is a small green and yellow parrot from the dry interior of Australia.

The Canada goose is a large black-necked goose with a white chinstrap, native to North America and now settled on four continents.

The chamois is a small goat-antelope of the steep mountains of Europe and western Asia, with hooked horns and a striped face.

The cockatiel is the smallest cockatoo, and it lives across the dry inland of Australia.

The common blackbird is a true thrush of Europe, North Africa and western Asia, and the male is glossy black with a yellow eye-ring.

The common myna is a brown starling with a black head and a bare yellow patch behind the eye, native to southern Asia.

The common pheasant is a long-tailed gamebird from Asia that people have released across the world.

The common starling is a glossy black songbird of Europe and Asia, spangled with white spots in winter.

The emperor penguin is the largest penguin and the only bird that breeds through the Antarctic winter.

The emu is a tall flightless bird found only in Australia, and no native bird there stands higher.

The European polecat is a dark, stocky mustelid with a pale face mask that hunts frogs, voles and rabbits by night.

The false killer whale is a large black dolphin of warm, deep seas that hunts tuna and squid in pods bound by lifelong ties.

The fin whale is the second longest animal alive and one of the fastest of the great whales.

The great white shark is the largest predatory fish.

The house mouse is a small grey-brown rodent that lives in and around human buildings on every inhabited continent.

The house sparrow is a small brown and grey bird that lives beside people almost everywhere on earth.

The humpback whale is a large baleen whale found in every ocean.

The Indian peafowl is the large ground bird of India and Sri Lanka, and it is India's national bird.

The kākāpō is a large flightless parrot found only in New Zealand, and it is the heaviest parrot in the world.

The king penguin is the second largest penguin, an orange-throated bird of subantarctic island beaches.

The least weasel is the smallest carnivore in the world, a tube-shaped hunter that follows voles and mice down their own tunnels.

The leopard seal is a long, spotted seal of the Antarctic pack ice that hunts penguins, seals, fish and krill.

The little penguin is the smallest penguin in the world, a slate-blue seabird of New Zealand and southern Australia.

The mallard is the green-headed dabbling duck of ponds, rivers and city parks across the northern world.

The monarch butterfly makes the longest migration of any insect.

The Muscovy duck is a large tree-perching duck of tropical America, black with white wing patches and a bare red face.

The orca is the largest dolphin and the top predator of the sea.

The red deer is one of the largest deer, found across Europe, western Asia and the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.

The red junglefowl is a shy forest-edge bird of South and Southeast Asia, and the wild ancestor of the domestic chicken.

The rock dove is the wild pigeon of sea cliffs and rocky gorges in Europe, North Africa and southern Asia.

The southern elephant seal is the largest seal on Earth, and a bull can weigh more than four times as much as a cow.

The sperm whale is the biggest of the toothed whales and the largest predator with teeth.

The stoat is a small, long-bodied weasel of Europe, northern Asia and the Arctic edge of North America.

The western honey bee lives in colonies of tens of thousands and turns nectar into honey.

The whale shark is the largest fish in the sea.

The wild boar is the wild pig of Europe, Asia and North Africa and the ancestor of the domestic pig.