Best bird watching is two hours eitherside of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants4970 Bar-tailed Godwit2500 Red Knot76 Pacific Golden Plover12 Ruddy Turnstone4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper4 Red-necked Stint2 Curlew Sandpiper1 Pectoral Sandpiper1 Broad-billed Sandpiper1 Black-tailed Godwit1 Sand Plover (greater)1 Glossy Ibis NZ Species300
Recent Sightings December-2018
Best bird watching is two hours eitherside of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants4970 Bar-tailed Godwit2500 Red Knot63 Pacific Golden Plover12 Ruddy Turnstone4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper3 Red-necked Stint2 Curlew Sandpiper1 Pectoral Sandpiper1 Broad-billed Sandpiper1 Black-tailed Godwit1 Glossy Ibis NZ Species113 Wrybill740 South Island
Recent Sightings November-2018
Recent Sightings November 2018 Best bird watching is two hours either side of <a href=” https://www.metservice.com/marine/tides/thames” target=”_blank” name=”tides”>high tide</a>. <b>Migrants and Vagrants</b> 4970 Bar-tailed Godwit 2500 Red Knot 56 Pacific Golden Plover 12 Ruddy Turnstone 4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 3 Red-necked
Recent Sightings October-2018
Recent Sightings October 2018 Best bird watching is two hours either side of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants 2310 Bar-tailed Godwit 2500 Red Knot 37 Pacific Golden Plover 4 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 2 Curlew Sandpiper 1 Red-necked Stint NZ
Recent Sightings September-2018
Recent Sightings September 2018 Best bird watching is two hours either side of high tide. The flocks of arctic migrants are growing and so are the number of sightings of the more rare birds. With our project coming up this summer
Where’s Goldie?
Goldie is our Pacific Golden Plover, the Kuriri, the fourth most common of the Arctic migrants that visit us each summer, and probably the most beautiful. But Goldie has a problem. The number of Pacific Golden Plovers arriving in New
Mysterious booming bitterns’ threat status upgraded to ‘nationally critical’
There was bad news – but possibly also a silver lining – from Australasian Bittern researcher Emma Williams when she addressed the mid-winter potluck dinner: bitterns, she told members, were about to be upgraded from ‘nationally endangered’ to ‘nationally critical’.
Meet our smallest Arctic migrant
The Red-necked Stint is often overlooked because it is our smallest Arctic migrant about the size of a sparrow. But, as Rachel Hufton reports, it is well worth looking for. Amid the magnificent flocks of Bar-tailed Godwits, Red Knots and
Recent Sightings August-2018
Best bird watching is two hours either side of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants 110 Bar-tailed Godwit 17 Red Knot 3 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Black-tailed Godwit 2 Northern Shoveler 1 Pacific Golden Plover 1 Eastern Curlew 1 Whimbrel NZ Species 2700
Recent Sightings July-2018
Best bird watching is two hours either side of high tide. Migrants and Vagrants 110 Bar-tailed Godwit 17 Red Knot 3 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Northern Shoveler 1 Pacific Golden Plover 2 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Eastern Curlew 1 Whimbrel NZ Species 2700