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

Arctic Migrants & Vagrants

500 Kuaka / Bar-tailed godwit
400 Huahou / Red knot
2 White-winged black tern
1 Far-eastern curlew
1 Black-tailed godwit
1 Whiskered tern

New Zealand Species

2000 Tōrea / South Island Pied Oystercatcher
2000 Ngutu parore / Wrybill
2000 Poaka / Pied stilts
470 Tarāpuka / Black-billed gulls
128 Taranui / Caspian tern
111 Pohowera / Banded dotterel
59 Kōtuku ngutupapa / Royal spoonbill
11 Banded rail
20 Taratimoho / NZ Dabchick
4 Tūturiwhatu / NZ Dotterel
2 Hybrid stilts
1 Kōtuku / White heron
1 Black-fronted Dotterel
Tōrea pango / Variable oystercatcher
White-faced heron

More about bird sightings.

Recent Sightings May 2023