Recent sightings – October 2016

Best birdwatching is two hours either
side of high tide.

Migrants and Vagrants
3200 Bar-tailed Godwit
1000 Red Knot
2 Marsh Sandpiper
1 Great Knot
2 Black-tailed Godwit
1 Hudsonian Godwit
3 Red-necked Stint
7 Turnstone – north of Kaiaua
1 Curlew Sandpiper
3 Golden Plover

NZ Species
200 Wrybill
Banded Dotterel
300 South Island Pied Oystercatchers
68 Royal Spoonbill
500+ Black-billed Gulls – nesting!
Caspian Terns
White Fronted Tern
Pied Stilts
Hybrid Black Stilt
4 New Zealand Dotterel
Variable Oystercatcher