Best bird watching is two hours eitherside of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants516 Bar-tailed Godwit27 Red Knot4 Black-fronted Dotterel1 Red-necked Stint1 Black-tailed Godwit1 Hudsonian Godwit NZ Species2200 South Island Pied Oystercatcher1800 Wrybill1100 Pied Stilts57 Royal Spoonbill57 Caspian Tern6 White-fronted terns1 BitternVariable
Another Kuriri update
7th July 2020 Just when you thought it was safe to forget about Pacific Golden Plovers, after two months of radio silence one of the six tags we deployed this season seems to be working again. After hearing nothing from
Recent Sightings May 2020
Best bird watching is two hours eitherside of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants516 Bar-tailed Godwit27 Red Knot4 Black-fronted Dotterel1 Red-necked Stint1 Black-tailed Godwit1 Hudsonian Godwit NZ Species2200 South Island Pied Oystercatcher1800 Wrybill1100 Pied Stilts57 Royal Spoonbill57 Caspian Tern6 White-fronted terns1
New season Pacific Golden Plover checks in
8th June 2020 After more than two months of radio silence since leaving Pūkorokoro we’ve finally heard from one of this season’s six tagged Kuriri. Ra – who was named after the sun – has reported in from Alaska. As
Recent Sightings January 2020
Best bird watching is two hours eitherside of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants6290 Bar-tailed Godwit2000 Red Knot37 Pacific Golden Plover15 Turnstone4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper3 Far-eastern Curlew3 Whimbrel2 Red-necked Stint2 Broad-billed Sandpiper1 Curlew Sandpiper1 Hudsonian Godwit1 Black-tailed Godwit1 Lesser Sand Plover NZ
3 New Kuriri and JoJo sneaks back
30th March 2020 It has been a hugely exciting time for the Pacific Golden Plover/Kuriri Project. First, with our last catching attempt of the season, we caught three more of these elusive birds – nicknamed Kowhai, Ra and Ahi –
Recent Sightings December 2019
Best bird watching is two hours eitherside of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants 4600 Bar-tailed Godwit 2000 Red Knot 37 Pacific Golden Plover 15 Turnstone 4 Red-necked Stint 4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 3 Far-eastern Curlew 3 Whimbrel 2 Broad-billed Sandpiper 1 Curlew
Recent Sightings November 2019
Best bird watching is two hours eitherside of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants4600 Bar-tailed Godwit2000 Red Knot37 Pacific Golden Plover 4 Red-necked stint3 Far-eastern Curlew4 Turnstone4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper3 Whimbrel1 Curlew Sandpiper1 Marsh Sandpiper1 Red-necked Stint1 Terek Sandpiper1 Broad-billed Sandpiper NZ Species780
Meet the 3 new Kuriri Explorers
3rd December 2019 The latest stage of our project to find out more about our Pacific Golden Plovers has been successfully completed. A combined team of banders from the Shorebird Centre and four experienced PGP catchers from Brigham Young University,
JoJo Broadcasting from Tonga
23rd November 2019 Our team of volunteers is about to assemble to try to catch seven more Pacific Golden Plover so we can fit them with satellite tags and hopefully fill in all the blanks in what we know about