Best bird watching is two hours either
side of high tide.
Migrants and Vagrants
4970 Bar-tailed Godwit
2500 Red Knot
105 Pacific Golden Plover
12 Ruddy Turnstone
4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
4 Red-necked Stint
2 Curlew Sandpiper
2 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Broad-billed Sandpiper
1 Grey-tailed Tattler
1 Glossy Ibis
NZ Species
5140 South Island Pied Oystercatcher
2000 Wrybill
250 White Fronted Terns
150 Black-billed Gulls
130 Caspian Tern
50 Banded Dotterel
33 Royal Spoonbill
8 Variable Oystercatcher
8 New Zealand Dotterel
7 Brown Teal
1 Kotuku
Australasian Bittern
Australasian Shoveler
Banded Rail
Chestnut Shelduck
Hybrid Black Stilt
Pied Stilts
Spur-winged Plover
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Recent Sightings February-2019