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News and Updates

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2019 is our Year of the Wrybill.

2019 is our Year of the Wrybill.

26th October 2019 WRYBILL for Bird of the Year! It’s time supporters! Voting is open and we would love your help making Wrybill / Ngutu Parore Bird of the Year!Vote WRYBILL for Bird of the Year This year we have

Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre October 26, 2019June 10, 2020 News and Updates Read more

Pūkorokoro Miranda eNEWS October 2019

Pūkorokoro Miranda eNEWS October 2019

15th October 2019 We now have lots of our Arctic migrants ‘home’. At the last count there were 4,150 godwit, 1,080 red knot and 16 Pacific golden plover.  We are still eagerly awaiting the arrival of JoJo, Amanda and wee

Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre October 15, 2019June 10, 2020 News and Updates Read more

And the Southern Migration Begins

And the Southern Migration Begins

2nd October 2019 An update from Lee Tibbitts at the US Geological Survey on the 23rd September 2019 confirmed that JoJo had left Alaska, flew over the Hawaiian Islands and then stopped, at least for a time at Teraina (or

Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre October 2, 2019June 11, 2020 News and Updates, Pacific Golden Plover Project Read more

Anticipation for the Homeward Journey

Anticipation for the Homeward Journey

23rd August 2019 The transmitters have started to send data more frequently in anticipation of the Pacific Golden Plovers long migration south to New Zealand, which could start at any time now. JoJo and Amanda are hopping about at sites

Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre August 23, 2019June 11, 2020 News and Updates, Pacific Golden Plover Project Read more

Satellites track 3 Kuriri all the way to the Arctic

Satellites track 3 Kuriri all the way to the Arctic

11th July 2019 And so the excitement continues. The latest satellite report indicates that Wee Jimmy arrived in Alaska on 5th July 2019, after a 16,600km journey from Pūkorokoro which took 73 days, and is resting up near Lake Selawik.

Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre July 22, 2019June 11, 2020 News and Updates, Pacific Golden Plover Project Read more

The Secret North Korea Stopover

Pacific Golden Plover Researcher Pukorokoro Miranda

27th May 2018 A team from the Pūkorokoro Miranda Naturalists’ Trust have been travelling to China and North Korea for several years to survey the shorebirds in the Yellow Sea. In 2018 they were followed by Mark Crysell and a

Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre May 3, 2019January 29, 2020 News and Updates Read more

Follow the Kuriri on Google Earth

Follow the Kuriri on Google Earth

You can watch with us as we follow the Pacific Golden Plovers on their journey up to the arctic to breed and back to us in summer. Visit the Dropbox folder below for the latest files and instructions on how

Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre May 3, 2019June 11, 2020 News and Updates, Pacific Golden Plover Project Read more

Satellites track 3 Kuriri across the Pacific

Satellites track 3 Kuriri across the Pacific

3rd May 2019 All three of the Kuriri – or Pacific Golden Plovers – we fitted with satellite tags have been successfully tracked across the Pacific and are now well on their way to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.

Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre May 3, 2019June 11, 2020 News and Updates, Pacific Golden Plover Project Read more

The birds are here

The birds are here

18th December 2018 Right now there are around 60 Pacific Golden Plover at the Robert Findlay Wildlife Reserve adjacent to the Shorebird Centre. That’s a good number because in the past 10 years the annual counts for the National Wader

Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre April 23, 2019June 11, 2020 News and Updates, Pacific Golden Plover Project Read more

Kuriri tracked on 9,000km flight to Japan

Kuriri tracked on 9,000km flight to Japan

22nd April 2019 A Pacific Golden Plover – known to Maori as Kuriri – has touched down in Japan after a 9,000km flight which will greatly increase knowledge of the species and so help keep them coming to New Zealand

Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre April 23, 2019June 11, 2020 News and Updates, Pacific Golden Plover Project Read more
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Shorebirds are here all year round, the highest numbers are present from January to March. The Shorebird Center is open 9-5 but you can go and see the birds whenever the tide is in.

The Shorebird Centre has overnight accommodation; self-contained units as well as bunkrooms for hire. Stay with us us while you check out New Zealand's shorebirds.

Tides

The best time to view the birds is within two hours either side of the high tide. Once the tide drops, the birds will go far out on the mudflats to feed.

You can view the tides for this year on our website here

If you're not sure give us a call: 09 232 2781.

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Pukorokoro Shorebird Centre Foundation North
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