Birds Of New Zealand
A beautiful selection of images of New Zealands unique bird life printed on canvas or aluminium and available as stock photos in jpeg format. These bird images are really stunning when printed on aluminium with a matt finish using the high definition Chromaluxe process. The prints look great when put together in sets providing a feature in any room.
I frequently head out to do more nature photography and also have a backlog of wildlife photos that I'm still sorting out so will be making regular updates to these bird collections. If you can't find what you're looking for then check back in a few months time or contact me with any specific requests.
All image by photographer Alec Messenger
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Kakariki-8
$100.00A kakariki or red crowned parakeet on a branch at Zealandia Ecosanctuary.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints...$100.00 -
Kaka-14
$100.00A kaka perched on the end of a branch adjacent to one of the feeding stations at Zeaandia Ecosanctuary in Wellington.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye...$100.00 -
Kaka-13
$82.00A kaka balancing on one leg while feeding itself with the other. This photo was taken at Zealandia Ecosanctuary in Wellington.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye...$82.00 -
Kaka-11
$82.00A kaka at Zealandia, holding on with one leg while reaching out for an invisible branch with the other. Kaka are one of Zealandias real success stories with a large healthy population now spreading out into the Wellington hills.Framing & Mounting:...$82.00 -
Kaka-10
$82.00Portrait image of a kaka taken at Zealandia Ecosancturay in Wellington.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due...$82.00 -
Hihi or Stitchbird-26
$82.00Closeup view of a male hihi/stitchbird at Zealandia Ecosanctuary. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$82.00 -
Hihi or Stitchbird-25
$82.00A portrait image of a male stitchbird taken at Zealandia Ecosanctuary. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due...$82.00 -
Hihi or Stitchbird-22
$100.00A beautiful little male hihi or stitchbird in the forest at Zealandia Ecosanctuary. Hihi are one of our most vulnerable native birds, they're at the bottom of the pecking order of our nectar feeders and now only survive in pest free sanctuaries and even...$100.00 -
Hihi or Stitchbird-20
$100.00A male stitchbird or hihi perched on a branch next to one of the feeding stations at Zealandia Ecosanctuary in Wellington. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye...$100.00 -
Hihi or Stitchbird-19
$100.00A classic pose for a stitchbird/hihi with its tale up and the white tufts on its head sticking out. Taken at Zealandia Ecosanctuary. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the...$100.00 -
Hihi or Stitchbird-18
$135.00A couple of male hihi perched waiting together for their turn at one of the feeding stations at Zealandia Ecosanctuary. Note that this image wa taken in low light with a narrow depth of field hence the hihi on the left is not quite in as sharp a focus...$135.00 -
Hihi or Stitchbird-16
$100.00A male stitchbird or hihi showing off his striking colours at Zealandia Ecosanctuary.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend...$100.00 -
Chaffinch-2
$100.00A male chaffinch looking for dropped seeds from one of the kaka feeding stations in Zealandia Ecosanctuary in Wellington.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye...$100.00 -
Chaffinch-1
$100.00A male chaffinch perched near the kaka feeding station at Zealandia Ecosanctuary.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium...$100.00 -
Blackbird At Zealandia
$82.00Not the reason I went to Zealandia but this male blackbird looked so sleek in his black plumage that I couldn't help taking a photo of him.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the...$82.00 -
Bellbird/Korimako-5
$82.00A male bellbird/Korimako, keeping watch next one of the feeding stations at Zealandia ecosanctuary to make sure the hihi don't sneak in. There is a pecking order amongst New Zealand native bird nectar feeders with tui at the top, then bellbird then hihi...$82.00 -
Bellbird/Korimako-2
$100.00A bellbird/korimako perched on a branch next one of the feeding stations at Zealandia ecosanctuary in Wellington.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation...$100.00 -
Bellbird/Korimako-1
$82.00A korimako/bellbird in the bush at Zealandia ecosanctuary in Wellington.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due...$82.00 -
Tui-6
$82.00A tui fluffed up in the morning sun and looking very pleased with itself having just polished off some wasps for breakfast. Yes thatÂ’s right, wasps, I watched this tui catch and eat four wasps.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed...$82.00 -
Tui Catching Wasps-2
$100.00A tui eating a chinese paper wasp. Much to my surprise, I watched this tui catch and eat four chinese paper wasps while I was taking these photos.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using...$100.00 -
Tui Catching Wasps-1
$135.00A tui catching wasps to eat. I watched this tui catch and eat four wasps while I was taking this series of photos.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation...$135.00 -
Paradise Shelduck In Flight
$100.00A parir of paradise shelduck (or putangitangi) flying through the valley behind our property on Frankley Rd in New Plymouth.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye...$100.00 -
Female Paradise Shelduck-2
$100.00A female paradise shelduck/putangitangi on the brow of a hill profiled nicely agains the blue sky. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We...$100.00 -
Pair Of Paradise Shelduck
$100.00A pair of paradise shelduck (putangitangi) looking down into the valley from the brow of the hill at the back of our garden in New plymouth.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the...$100.00 -
Male Paradise Shelduck
$100.00A paradise shelduck (putangitangi) drake profiled nicely agains the blue sky on the top of the hill behind our garden in New Plymouth.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the...$100.00 -
Pukeko Chick
$100.00A tiny pukeko chick trying to hide in the long grass. Its parents were both nearby, kicking up a racket, trying to distract intruders fromt eh location of their chick.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas...$100.00 -
Pukeko-6
$100.00A pukeko on the brow of a hill lit up beautifully by the moring sunFraming & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$100.00 -
Kereru In Kowhai-4
$100.00A close up portrait of a kereru in the top of one of the kowhai trees in our garden. The kereru feed on the new growth from summe during Autumn and Winter.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on...$100.00 -
Kea On A Rock
$100.00A Kea standing on a rock at the Homer Tunnel car park near Milford Sound. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints...$100.00 -
Kea At Arthurs Pass-2
$100.00A kea checking us out standing on the hand rail at one of the car parks in Arthurs pass.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend...$100.00 -
Black Shag Taking Off-2
$135.00A black shag/kawau flies low over the river after taking off from a rock. Taken on the Waiwhakaio river, New Plymouth.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye...$135.00 -
Black Shag Taking Off-1
$135.00A black shag/kawau launches off from a rock in the Waiwhakaio river. I had just got in position to get a photo of this pair of shags who were posing nicely on the rock, when one of tehm took off just as I pressed the shutter.Framing & Mounting: This...$135.00 -
Black Shags On Rock
$135.00Black shag (kawau) on a rock in the Waiwhakaio river in New Plymouth.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$135.00 -
Yellowhammer-3
$82.00A yellowhammer perched on a flax stem at lake Okareka nature reserve. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due...$82.00 -
Yellowhammer-2
$100.00A yellowhammer on a fence at the Lake Okareka nature reserve, Rotorua. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due...$100.00 -
Yellowhammer-1
$100.00A yellowhammer perchedon a fence wire at Lake Okareka, Rotorua. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$100.00 -
South Island Tomtit
$100.00An adult and juvenile South Island Tomtit at the Orokonui Ecosanctuary near Dunedin Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend...$100.00 -
Thrush Singing At Dawn
$82.00A thrush singing joyfully at dawn at the Waiwhakaio river mouth in New Plymouth. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium...$82.00 -
Welcome Swallow-4
$82.00A welcome swallow or warou, perched on a jetty on the shore of lake Rotorua in Ngongotaha. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend...$82.00 -
Welcome Swallow-3
$82.00A welcome swallow/warou stretching its wings before taking off from a jetty on the shores of lake Rotorua. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process...$82.00