Best bird watching is two hours either side of high tide.


Migrants and Vagrants

4800+ Bar-tailed Godwit

1200 Red Knot

14 Turnstone

28 Pacific Golden Plover

3 Far Eastern Curlew

2 Sharp Tailed Sandpiper

1 Lesser Sandplover

1 Curlew Sandpiper


NZ Species

500 South Island Pied Oystercatcher

84 Wrybill

100 Royal Spoonbill

12 Banded Dotterel

Pied Stilt

Caspian Tern

White Fronted Tern

Pied Shag

White Faced Heron

Black Billed Gull

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Recent Sightings December 2020