Recent Sightings February 2022

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

Arctic Migrants and Vagrants

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

NZ Species
2500 Torea / South Island Pied Oystercatcher
1800 Ngutu Parore / Wrybill
553 Pied Stilt
80 Banded Dotterel
42 Royal Spoonbill
4 NZ Dotterel
4 Banded Rail (incl chicks)
40 Black Billed Gull
1 Little Tern
Variable Oystercatcher
White Faced Heron
Caspian Tern

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