New Zealand Rock Wren - Threats and Conservation
'On the Edge'
On the Edge
- Original 510mm x 210mm.
Original Available: No
- Original 510mm x 210mm.
Original Available: No
This painting depicts the endemic New Zealand rock wren on the edge—not only of a rocky precipice surveying its alpine habitat, but also in terms of its critical vulnerability.
The rock wren is a tiny bird found exclusively in the rugged Southern Alps, making it New Zealand’s only truly alpine bird species. As a weak flyer, it spends most of its life hopping and flitting through severe terrain, navigating boulder fields and subalpine scrub to forage for insects, spiders, and berries. Because they nest directly on the ground, these little birds are easy targets for introduced mammalian predators, particularly stoats and mice.
When the conservation status of the rock wren was officially downgraded from nationally vulnerable to nationally endangered, its survival truly hung 'on the edge'.
To learn more about this species and its ongoing preservation, visit Fauna Recovering New Zealand.
The rock wren is a tiny bird found exclusively in the rugged Southern Alps, making it New Zealand’s only truly alpine bird species. As a weak flyer, it spends most of its life hopping and flitting through severe terrain, navigating boulder fields and subalpine scrub to forage for insects, spiders, and berries. Because they nest directly on the ground, these little birds are easy targets for introduced mammalian predators, particularly stoats and mice.
When the conservation status of the rock wren was officially downgraded from nationally vulnerable to nationally endangered, its survival truly hung 'on the edge'.
To learn more about this species and its ongoing preservation, visit Fauna Recovering New Zealand.