Best bird watching is two hours either
side of high tide.
Migrants and Vagrants
4600 Bar-tailed Godwit
2000 Red Knot
32 Pacific Golden Plover
3 Far-eastern Curlew
4 Turnstone
3 Whimbrel
1 Curlew Sandpiper
1 Marsh Sandpiper
1 Red-necked Stint
1 Terek Sandpiper
1 Chestnut-breasted shelduck
1 Broad-billed Sandpiper
NZ Species
780 South Island Pied Oystercatcher
1100 Black-billed Gulls
200 Wrybill
52 Royal Spoonbill
20 Caspian Tern
8 Variable Oystercatcher
8 NZ Dotterel
1 Kotuku
Australasian Shoveler
Banded Rail
Hybrid Black Stilts
Pied Stilts
White Fronted Terns
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Recent Sightings October 2019