Recent Sightings August 2023

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

Arctic Migrants & Vagrants

602 Kuaka / Bar-tailed godwit
480 Huahou / Red knot
2 White-winged black tern
1 Black-tailed godwit
1 Far-eastern curlew
1 Glossy ibis
1 Whimbrel
1 Whiskered tern

New Zealand Species

3650 Tōrea / South Island Pied Oystercatcher
2250 Ngutu parore / Wrybill
2350 Poaka / Pied stilts
470 Tarāpuka / Black-billed gulls
250 Canada geese
128 Taranui / Caspian tern
111 Pohowera / Banded dotterel
75 Kōtuku ngutupapa / Royal spoonbill
11 Banded rail
31 Taratimoho / NZ Dabchick
4 Tūturiwhatu / NZ Dotterel
4 Hybrid stilts
1 Kōtuku / White heron
1 Black-fronted Dotterel
Tōrea pango / Variable oystercatcher
White-faced heron

More about bird sightings.