New Zealand Species Count

New Zealand Species Count

New Zealand has heaps of native and endemic threatened species.

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 list will be updated and added to as we learn new figures.

(The number after the name is the year the species count was recorded.
The population figures are approximate, unless specified.)

Colourful tui by Emily Kemp

	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 Fairy tern - 2000 = 36 Hamilton's frog - 2000 = 300 Hector's dolphin - 2001 = North Island 100, South Island 2000-3000 Kakapo - total count January 2001 = 62 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) - February 2001 = less than 120 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