Best bird watching is two hours either
side of high tide.
Migrants and Vagrants
440 Bar-tailed Godwit
100 Red Knot
4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
3 Ruddy Turnstone
2 Red-necked Stint
2 Curlew Sandpiper
2 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Broad-billed Sandpiper
1 Grey-tailed Tattler
1 Glossy Ibis
1 Black-tailed godwit
NZ Species
5140 South Island Pied Oystercatcher
2000 Wrybill
150 Black-billed Gulls
50 Banded Dotterel
36 Royal Spoonbill
20 Caspian Tern
8 Variable Oystercatcher
1 Kotuku
1 Black-fronted Dotterel
Australasian Shoveler
Banded Rail
Hybrid Black Stilt
Pied Stilts
Spur-winged Plover
White Fronted Terns
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Migrants and Vagrants
440 Bar-tailed Godwit
100 Red Knot
1 Pacific Golden Plover
4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
3 Ruddy Turnstone
2 Red-necked Stint
2 Curlew Sandpiper
2 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Broad-billed Sandpiper
1 Grey-tailed Tattler
1 Glossy Ibis
1 Black-tailed godwit
NZ Species
5140 South Island Pied Oystercatcher
2000 Wrybill
150 Black-billed Gulls
50 Banded Dotterel
36 Royal Spoonbill
20 Caspian Tern
8 Variable Oystercatcher
1 Kotuku
Australasian Bittern
Australasian Shoveler
Banded Rail
Hybrid Black Stilt
Pied Stilts
Spur-winged Plover
White Fronted Terns
More about bird sightings.