Best bird watching is two hours either side of high tide.
Arctic Migrants & Vagrants
5200 Kuaka / Bar-tailed godwit
1000 Huahou / Red knot
82 Kuriri / Pacific golden plover
16 Turnstone
4 Sharp-tailed sandpiper
2 Red-necked stint
2 Whimbrel
1 Black-tailed godwit
1 Curlew sandpiper
1 Far-eastern curlew
1 Grey-tailed tattler
1 White-winged black tern
New Zealand Species
2000 Tōrea / South Island Pied Oystercatcher
2000 Ngutu parore / Wrybill
1200 Poaka / Pied stilt
470 Tarāpuka / Black-billed gulls
59 Kōtuku ngutupapa / Royal spoonbill
52 Pohowera / Banded dotterel
11 Banded rail (7 chicks)
9 Taratimoho / NZ Dabchick
4 Tūturiwhatu / NZ Dotterel
2 Hybrid Black/Pied stilts
1 Kotuku / White heron
Taranui / Caspian tern
Tōrea pango / Variable oystercatcher
White-faced heron
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