The Australasian harrier (Circus approximans), also known as the kāhu, harrier hawk or swamp harrier, is a bird of the open country. It is often seen soaring and looking for prey, or eating dead rabbits or possums on the road.

 The magpie is a common bird, seen in mostly in rural areas across many parts of New Zealand. It was introduced in the 1860s to help control insect pests in farmland.

The bellbird is known as the korimako (which is the same name as the hebe), makomako (mako is also the Maori name for shark), or rearea (but this is not very common).

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Eastern rosellas (Platycercus eximius) are a medium-size parrot. Females resemble males but with slightly duller coloration. Rosellas have red heads and breast, with white cheek patches.

The fantail or pīwakawaka (Rhipidura fuliginosa) is 16 centimetres long, including its 8-centimetre tail. It weighs 8 grams. Most fantails are brown above and pale underneath.

The native grey warbler or riroriro (Gerygone igata) and the endemic Chatham Island warbler (Gerygone albofrontata) are New Zealand’s only members of the Australasian family Pardalotidae. They sing a delicate and complex trill, which Māori took as a seasonal reminder to plant their crops.

The New Zealand pigeon is known as the kuku or kukupa in the far North, but the kereru by the remainder of the country except on the Chatham Islands where it is called the parea. 

The New Zealand kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) usually lives in a nest hole in a clay bank. This is the only native kingfisher species found in New Zealand. Another kingfisher, the Australian kookaburra, was introduced and lives around Auckland.

The kākā (Nestor meridionalis) is a noisy and sociable bird of the forest. It is related to the alpine parrot, the kea (Nestor notabilis). In 1877 ornithologist Walter Buller wrote of Māori catching 300 kākā a day in the Urewera forest, during the rātā blooming season. 

New Zealand robins resemble British robins, but the two groups are not closely related. The New Zealand species belong to the Australian–New Guinean family Petroicidae.
 

Two cuckoo species breed in New Zealand. Both are migratory, arriving in spring to breed and flying north to Pacific islands for winter.
Like most cuckoos, both lay their eggs in the nests of other species, which incubate them and then rear the chicks.

 The silvereye or waxeye (Zosterops lateralis) has a distinctive white ring around its eye. Its Māori name, tauhou, means stranger – it is a recent arrival, first noted in 1832 and established from 1856.

New Zealand tomtits resemble British robins, but the two groups are not closely related. The New Zealand species belong to the Australian–New Guinean family Petroicidae. Tomtits have large heads, short necks, round bodies and an upright stance.

The plumage of the tui can look black from certain angles and in dull light but in the sunshine the feathers positively sparkle with green, purple and bronze iridescent sheens.