Recent Sightings January-2019

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

Migrants and Vagrants
4970 Bar-tailed Godwit
2500 Red Knot
76 Pacific Golden Plover
12 Ruddy Turnstone
4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
4 Red-necked Stint
2 Curlew Sandpiper
1 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Broad-billed Sandpiper
1 Black-tailed Godwit
1 Sand Plover (greater)
1 Glossy Ibis

NZ Species
300 Wrybill
740 South Island Pied Oystercatcher
250 White Fronted Terns
150 Black-billed Gulls
130 Caspian Tern
33 Royal Spoonbill
12 Banded Dotterel
8 Variable Oystercatcher
8 New Zealand Dotterel
7 Brown Teal
Australasian Bittern
Australasian Shoveler
Banded Rail
Chesnut Shelduck
Hybrid Black Stilt
Pied Stilts
Spur-winged Plover

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