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
Flung Scarf of Wrybill
by Kirsten Strom 23rd October 2019 2019 is our Year of the Wrybill. A year to lift the profile this iconic New Zealand bird which we share with our South Island braided river friends. In the winter months nearly half
Recent Sightings October 2019
Best bird watching is two hours either side of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants 4600 Bar-tailed Godwit 2000 Red Knot 32 Pacific Golden Plover 3 Far-eastern Curlew 4 Turnstone 3 Whimbrel 1 Curlew Sandpiper 1 Marsh Sandpiper 1 Red-necked Stint
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 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
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
Recent Sightings September 2019
Best bird watching is two hours either side of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants 2100 Bar-tailed Godwit 1080 Red Knot 16 Pacific Golden Plover 3 Far-eastern Curlew 2 Turnstone 2 Whimbrel 1 Chestnut-breasted shelduck NZ Species 300 South Island Pied