Here’s a collection of dawn chorus and selected bird calls from the Department of Conversation.

Dawn chorus

Dawn chorus with bellbird/korimako in the foreground (MP3, 1,853K) (opens in new window) 
01:58 – Birds singing from silver beech trees in Abel Tasman National Park.

Dawn chorus with tūī in the foreground (MP3, 2,889K) (opens in new window)
03:04 – Tui and a chorus of many other birds singing in mixed bush and flowering kowhai.

Dawn chorus with blackbirds in the foreground (MP3, 2,281K) (opens in new window)
02:25 – Adult male blackbird and many other birds giving song in garden surroundings.

Favourite Bird Calls

Bellbird/korimako group (MP3, 2,821K) (opens in new window)
01:22 – Five adults singing on Little Barrier Island.

Bellbird/korimako adult male (MP3, 561K) (opens in new window) 
00:35 – Adult male

Bellbird/korimako adult alarm call (MP3, 1,300K) (opens in new window)
01:22 – Adult sitting in a tree near a track giving an alarm call.

Fantail: Chatham Island fantail song (MP3 1,597K) (opens in new window) 
01:41 – Singing from a song perch.

Fantail: North Island fantail song (MP3, 230K) (opens in new window)
00:14 – Making short feeding flights and giving calls.

Fantail: North Island fantail song (MP3 1,842K) (opens in new window)
00:1:57 – Adult giving territorial calls while moving from perch to perch in willows.

Fantail: South Island fantail (MP3, 2,015K) (opens in new window)
02:08 – Adult male territorial song.

Grey warbler song (MP3, 527K) (opens in new window)
01:26 – Territorial call, flying between perches, answering a tape recorder.

Morepork/ruru song (MP3, 1,620K) (opens in new window)
01:43 – Morepork/ruru song.

New Zealand dotterel/tūturiwhatu song (MP3, 3,371K) (opens in new window)
03:35 – New Zealand dotterel song.

New Zealand pigeon/kererū/kūkū/kūkupa (MP3, 1,868K) (opens in new window)
01:58 – Three adults in song and in-flight wingbeats (cicadas in the background).

New Zealand falcon/kārearea juvenile female song (MP3, 721K) (opens in new window)
00:45 – Captive juvenile female giving a call apparently used as warning or irritation.

New Zealand falcon/kārearea female song (MP3, 468K) (opens in new window)
00:29 – Female giving calls soliciting food from male.