Best bird watching is two hours either
side of high tide.
Migrants and Vagrants
4970 Bar-tailed Godwit
2500 Red Knot
63 Pacific Golden Plover
12 Ruddy Turnstone
4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
3 Red-necked Stint
2 Curlew Sandpiper
1 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Broad-billed Sandpiper
1 Black-tailed Godwit
1 Glossy Ibis
NZ Species
113 Wrybill
740 South Island Pied Oystercatcher
250 White Fronted Terns
150 Black-billed Gulls
130 Caspian Tern
23 Royal Spoonbill
12 Banded Dotterel
8 Variable Oystercatcher
8 New Zealand Dotterel
7 Brown Teal
Australasian Bittern
Australasian Shoveler
Banded Rail
Hybrid Black Stilt
Pied Stilts
Spur-winged Plover
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Recent Sightings December-2018