Auckland Museum's outstanding land vertebrates collection comprises over 15,000 bird specimens, 3,800 amphibians and reptiles and 1,600 land mammals.

These specimens are primarily from northern New Zealand, but there is also a significant amount of material from elsewhere in the country, from islands of the south-west Pacific, from Australia and from around the world. The collection is particularly strong in kiwis and moas, oceanic seabirds, penguins, cormorants, ducks, waders and allies (Charadriiformes).

GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/aad97542-a068-449d-adb3-a8e937f64cb4
Homepage: http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections
Citation: Erickson R, Galbraith J, Hoare B (2026). Auckland Museum Land Vertebrates Collection. Version 1.18. Auckland War Memorial Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/xmpo2s accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-11.