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


Arctic Migrants and Vagrants

4320 Kuaka / Bar Tailed Godwit
1380 Huahou / Red Knot
20 Kuriri / Pacific Golden Plover
6 Whimbrel (Piako)
20 Turnstone (Taramaire)
1 Black-tailed godwit
1 Curlew Sandpiper
1 Grey-tailed tattler
1 Sharp-tailed sandpiper
1 Eastern Curlew


NZ Species

353 Torea / South Island Pied Oystercatcher
132 Ngutu Parore / Wrybill
553 Pied Stilt
42 Royal Spoonbill
4 NZ Dotterel
40 Black Billed Gull
Variable Oystercatcher
White Faced Heron
Caspian Tern
1 Bittern

More about bird sightings.

Recent Sightings December 2021