I'm quite partial to kakapos myself.
Also awesome:
Peregrine falcon, bitches. These motherfuckers are
fast, with a normal flight speed of between 40 and 50 mph (65-80 kph for you people not living in a backasswards country) and dives reaching speeds of 200 mph (320 kph). Why dive that fast? These birds are fucking hardcore hunters. Instead of hunting small mammals like many other raptors, these fuckers hunt other birds, and the best way to do that is to wait for little Robin to get out into the open, scream "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GROUND", and fucking obliterate it out of the sky. Damn.
The osprey is also quite awesome,and I get to see a bunch of them where I live. A while ago, the ancestor of this majestic looking motherfucker decided to say "FUCK LAND, I'LL HUNT ON WATER MOTHERFUCKER", and ever since they've been pescatarians. They'll wait for fish to come up to the water to feed, then dive down and grab the fish in their talons like a boss. They also have a habit of nesting on telephone poles, as they're somewhat similar to the cliffs they've ancestrally nested on (because they're up high and... I don't know, I'm not an osprey). Humans noticed this and as such have been constructing telephone poles with broad tops for the ospreys to nest on instead, which has contributed to less Kentucky Fried Osprey and more awesome birds to look at.