Recent Sightings December 2022

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

Arctic Migrants & Vagrants

5200 Kuaka / Bar-tailed godwit
1000 Huahou / Red knot
52 Kuriri / Pacific golden plover
16 Turnstone
2 Red-necked stint
2 Whimbrel
1 Curlew sandpiper
1 Far-eastern curlew
1 White-winged black tern

New Zealand Species

470 Tarāpuka / Black-billed gulls
350 Torea / South Island Pied Oystercatcher
240 Ngutu parore / Wrybill
59 Kōtuku ngutupapa / Royal spoonbill
11 Banded rail (7 chicks)
2 Hybrid Black/Pied stilts
2 Taratimoho / NZ Dabchick
2 Tūturiwhatu / NZ Dotterel
1 Tūturuatu / Shore plover
Taranui / Caspian tern
Poaka / Pied stilt
Tōrea pango / Variable oystercatcher
White-faced heron

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