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
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
22nd March 2019 Pūkorokoro Miranda Naturalists’ Trust’s intensive campaign to catch 10 Pacific Golden Plover – or Kuriri – to fit with satellite tags has come to a halt for now with three birds successfully processed and poised to head
Best bird watching is two hours eitherside of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants440 Bar-tailed Godwit2500 Red Knot12 Pacific Golden Plover 4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 3 Ruddy Turnstone2 Red-necked Stint2 Curlew Sandpiper2 Pectoral Sandpiper1 Broad-billed Sandpiper1 Grey-tailed Tattler1 Glossy Ibis NZ Species5140 South