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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Silvereye On Cherry-2
$82.00A silvereye (tauhou) in the cherry blossom during spring.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 their high...$82.00 -
Paradise Shelduck-5
$100.00A pair of paradise shelduck (putangitangi) standing guard over their nest on Kapiti Island.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 -
Paradise Shelduck-4
$100.00A female paradise shelduck (putangitangi) standing guard over its nest on Kapiti Island.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 -
Paradise Shelduck-2
$82.00A female paradise shelduck (putangitangi) stretching its wings at lake Okareka near Rotorua.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 -
Paradise Shelduck-1
$82.00A male paradise shelduck (putangitangi) silhouetted against the valley behind by the late afternoon sun. Photo taken at outr property on Frankley Rd.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium...$82.00 -
Black Shag-1
$100.00A black shag swooping in to land on the Whaiwakaio river.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 their high...$100.00 -
Pied Shag-2
$100.00A pied shag at Zealandia ecosanctury. Pied shag are also commonly called pied cormorant.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 -
Scaup/Black Teal-1
$100.00A scaup or black teal (papango in Maori) swimming in the lake 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...$100.00 -
Saddleback (Tieke)-7
$100.00A saddleback/tieke digs into the bark of an old tree looking for food at Zealandia ecosancuary in Wellington.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation...$100.00 -
Saddleback (Tieke)-6
$100.00A saddleback/tieke hanging from an old branch were it had been digging into the old wood with its beak searching for grubs. Photo taken at Zealandia ecosanctuary in Wellington.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either...$100.00 -
Saddleback (Tieke)-5
$82.00A saddleback/tieke digging under the bark finding insects or larvae to eat 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...$82.00 -
Saddleback (Tieke)-3
$82.00A saddleback, or tieke, clinging to a tree trunk 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...$82.00 -
Saddleback (Tieke)-1
$82.00A saddleback, ot tieke, in the bush on Kapiti Island. Saddleback are another one of our rare birds that now only survive in pest free sanctuaries.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using...$82.00 -
Eastern Rosella-7
$100.00An eastern rosella in our garden eating flax sseds.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 their high...$100.00 -
Eastern Rosella-6
$82.00An eastern rosella in the flax in our garden feeding on the seed heads.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 -
Eastern Rosella-3
$100.00A pair of eastern rosella feeding on a flax seed head in our garden during late summer.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 -
North Island Robin-8
$82.00A toutouwai or North Island robin exploring the bush at Zealandia ecosanctuary in Wellington. These are beautiful inquisitive little birds that will often come right up to you and explore around your feet to see what insects you may have disturbed...$82.00 -
North Island Robin-6
$100.00A North Island Robin (toutouwai) exploring the forest on Kapiti Island. There was a large population of these robin on Kapiti.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye...$100.00 -
North Island Robin-4
$100.00A juvenile North Island robin (toutouwai) in the forest 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 -
North Island Robin-1
$82.00A North Island Robin (toutouwai) at Zealandia sanctuary in Wellington. These little robin are the cutest, friendliest birds in the forest.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the...$82.00 -
Pukeko-4
$100.00A pukeko on the hillside beside our drive looking regal in its bright purple plummage.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 -
Pukeko-3
$100.00A pukeo takes off from the top of a garden fence.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 their high...$100.00 -
Pukeko-2
$135.00A pair of pukeko with a young chick on our lawn.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 their high...$135.00 -
Brown Teal On Beach-1
$100.00A pateke or brown teal foraging in the sand at Blind Bay beach duringhte late afternoon on Great Barrier Island.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation...$100.00 -
Variable Oystercatcher-7
$100.00A variable oystercatcher (torea pango) in stunning profiile as it surveys a smal lagoon on the Taranaki coast north of Bell Block.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe...$100.00 -
Variable Oystercatcher-5
$135.00A variable oystercatcher (torea pango) stands guard above its next on the beach at Great Barrier Island.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process...$135.00 -
Variable Oystercatcher-4
$100.00A variable oystercatcher (torea pango) in the surf at Blind Bay beach on Great Barrier IslandFraming & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend...$100.00 -
Variable Oystercatcher-3
$220.00An adult variable oystercatcher (torea pango) closely followed by a juvenile on Blind Bay Beach, Gt Barrier Island. The juvenile followed the adult all over the beach, whenever the adult found something to eat the juvenile would rush in and gobble it up...$220.00 -
Variable Oystercatcher-1
$100.00A variable oystercatcher (torea pango) foraging on the beach at Blind Bay, Great Barrier Island.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We...$100.00 -
NZ Sacred Kingfisher-6
$82.00A New Zealand sacred kingfisher/kotare on a fence post on our neighbours property on Frankley Rd, New Plymouth. We frequently see kingfisher patrolling the fence lines catching insects (beetles, crickets etc) and earthworms.Framing & Mounting: This...$82.00 -
NZ Sacred Kingfisher-4
$135.00A NZ sacred kingfisher (kotare) silently watches the valley searching for prey. Taken from the hillside below our garden at our property in New Plymouth. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on...$135.00 -
NZ Sacred Kingfisher-3
$100.00A sacred king fisher or kotare, perched in a tree overlooking the valley below our house on Frankley rd.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process...$100.00 -
NZ Sacred Kingfisher-2
$100.00A New Zealand Sacred Kingfisher (kotare) perched in a tree on our neightbours property 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...$100.00 -
Kereru - NZ Wood Pigeon-9
$100.00A kereru/NZ wood pigeon perched at rest on a tree on Kapiti Island.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 -
Kereru On The Ground
$100.00A kareru, or NZ wood pigeon, foraging in the grass on Kapiti island. I have never seen kereru foraging on the ground anywhere on the main islands in New Zealand but it was something we saw frequently on Kapiti island where there's no cats or stoats or...$100.00 -
Kereru In Kowhai-2
$100.00A Kereru or New Zealand wood pigeon grazing on the flowers and new gowth in the top of a kowhai in our garden during spring.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye...$100.00 -
Kereru - NZ Wood Pigeon-6
$100.00A NZ wood pigeon or kereru looking absolutely splendid as it perches on a branch in Glenfern sanctuary on Great Barrier Island.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye...$100.00 -
Kereru - NZ Wood Pigeon-5
$82.00A kereru, looking majestic, at Glenfern sanctuary on Great Barrier Island. Glenfern had a large population of kereru (or NZ wood pigeon) and there was nearly always one or more of them somewhere in the trees surrounding the cottage we were staying in...$82.00 -
Kereru - NZ Wood Pigeon-4
$100.00A pair of kereru (NZ wood pigeon) checking each other out at Glefern sanctuary on Great Barrier Island.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We...$100.00 -
Kereru - NZ Wood Pigeon-3
$135.00A pair of kereru (NZ wood pigeon) hanging out together on a branch in Glefern sanctuary on Great Barrier Island.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation...$135.00