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A giant petrel found on Farewell Spit on Wednesday is likely to have died in a storm, but is being tested for H5 bird flu virus given recent cases in Australia.
Caption:A giant petrel found on Farewell Spit on Wednesday is likely to have died in a storm, but is being tested for H5 bird flu virus given recent cases in Australia.Photo credit:Sarah Fisher/Pest Free Onetahua
Common crane fly over a cornfield, near Arjuzanx, south-western France on October 30, 2025. The recent detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in common cranes in Germany and then in France, accompanied by significant mortality and spread to nearby farms, raises fears of a “massive introduction (…) probably underway”, according to the latest weekly report. (Photo by Gaizka IROZ / AFP)
Handout picture released on December 3, 2022 by the Mayor of Puerto Piritu press office showing a pelican suspected to have died from H5N1 avian influenza, at Puerto Piritu Lagoon in Anzoategui state, Venezuela. Venezuela declared a 90-day health alert in five coastal states after detecting for the first time in the country cases of AH5N1 avian influenza in pelicans, the government announced on the eve.
University of Otago epidemiologist Michael Baker has won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize.
Whale stranding at Farewell Spit
Looking down towards Anchorage in the Abel Tasman National Park
Heather Jean Bryham admires a large, old pūriri tree on the family farm near Waipū.
Tarakihi at Pak n Save Kilbirnie.
An image showing the 2015 El Niño with rising temperatures in the Pacific.
Wakari Hospital
The locusts Malcolm Diack farms are found naturally in New Zealand.
Victim Support chief executive James McCulloch.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, UNITED STATES - JUNE 25: Nestory Irankunda of Australia during the World Cup match between Paraguay v Australia at the San Francisco Bay Area Stadium on June 25, 2026 in San Francisco Bay Area United States (Photo by Eric Verhoeven/Soccrates/Getty Images)