Get to know New Zealand’s only endemic pigeon with your friends and family. Get access to Kererū HQ and receive egg-cellent emails with kererū-themed activities and games that you can do at school or home. Take the Kererū Club pledge to do the Great Kererū Count and you could win native trees for your school or […]

The kererū is endemic, which means it is found nowhere else in the world!  It is a large bird with a small green head, white chest, and purple/bronze iridescence on the wings. Kererū make distinctive sounds with their wings in flight, but are normally silent with occasional ‘coooo’s coming through the forest. They can live […]

Can you imagine flocks of wood pigeons, hundreds of colourful kererū, creating noisy wing-beats throughout Ōtepoti/Dunedin? They would perch in our gardens, dozens of birds feasting on the fruits of our native trees, travelling long distances to deposit the seeds, thereby regenerating the forest.  By joining the Kererū Club, you can connect with our feathered friends to protect them in […]

There are LOTS of ways to help the kererū near you. Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing some ideas right here at Kererū HQ. Join the Great Kererū Count The Great Kererū Count is New Zealand’s largest citizen science project. By spotting (or not spotting) the colourful kererū in Dunedin, we can better understand how […]

The Great Kererū Count (GKC) is an annual citizen science project encouraging New Zealanders to count the kererū that are present (or not present) in their neighbourhoods. Since 2014, scientists have been using this information to figure out how kererū are doing and the best way to protect them.

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