As BirdingNZ is one of the first websites that comes up in search engines when looking this particular activity, lifestyle and obsession, i was a bit confused about absence of two things here:
Firstly a some sort of recent rare/interesting bird observation list (that is easy to find, as i can't say that for this - only after some few minutes i found this viewforum.php?f=16 forum thread. It sort of slips by when looking through recent topics). Don't know whats the best solution (maybe I'm just too much of western palearctic

Second would be a sort of bird list thing - the actual bird species list of observed species (up till fifty years from last sighting or smthing like that was it?), or at least putting somewhere this rare bird reporting list http://osnz.org.nz/rarebirds.htm which took some while to find. On the same idea, i've put together a list [https://www.dropbox.com/s/qsoolyl6ezdp71l/NZ%20List_SI_NI.xls] of theoretical species (north and south islands, mostly intended for personal use in field and so) and very short descriptive status, maybe any comments or suggestions?
Otherwise huge congratulations with nz birds online - thats awesome resource not only for random persons stopping by in NZ but also (hopefully) for regular people

Cheers!