New Zealand Native Animals

At Willowbank Wildlife Reserve we have a diverse range of native and endemic New Zealand animals.


For more information on the animals please click on the links below.

* Due to the nature of a Wildlife Reserve  the animals we have on display may change. 

Reptiles

• Tuatara

New Zealand Birds

• Antipodes Island Parakeet
• Grey Teal
• Kaka
• Kakariki
• Kea
• Masked Lapwing
• Morepork
• Nankeen Night Heron
• North Island Brown Kiwi
• New Zealand Falcon
• Blue Duck/Whio
• New Zealand Pigeon/Kereru
• New Zealand Scaup
• Paradise Shellduck
• Pukeko
• Weka
• White Faced Heron
• Brown Teal
• Rowi - Okarito Brown Kiwi
• Campbell Island Teal
• Grey Duck

Aquatic

• Long finned Eel
• Fresh Water Crayfish (Koura)

Invertebrates

• Kauri Snail - Giant Land Snail

Lizards

• Otago Skink
• Common Gecko
• Common Skink
• Duvaucel's Gecko

Extinct

• Moa
• New Zealand Eagle