Little Spotted Kiwi* (endemic) Australasian (Great) Crested Grebe Blue Penguin (Little Penguin)* Prion sp Sooty Shearwater* Australian Gannet* Little Shag (Little Pied Cormorant)* Pied Shag (Pied Cormorant)* Black Shag (Great Cormorant) Spotted Shag* (endemic) Black Swan Greylag Goose Paradise Shelduck* (endemic) Mallard Grey Duck (Pacific Black Duck)* Australasian Shoveler* New Zealand Scaup* (endemic) White-faced Heron* White Heron (Great Egret) Royal Spoonbill* Australasian (Swamp) Harrier* Brown Quail* California Quail Weka* (endemic) Pukeko (Purple Swamphen)* Takahe* (endemic) Australian (Eurasian) Coot Bar-tailed Godwit* Ruddy Turnstone Lesser Knot (Red Knot)* Pied (South Island) Oystercatcher* Variable Oystercatcher* (endemic) Pied (Black-winged) Stilt* New Zealand (Red-breasted) Dotterel* (endemic) Banded Dotterel (Double-banded Plover)* (endemic) Wrybill* (endemic) Spur-winged Plover (Masked Lapwing)* Black-backed Gull (Kelp Gull)* Red-billed Gull (Silver Gull)* Black-billed Gull* (endemic) Black-fronted Tern* (endemic) Caspian Tern White-fronted Tern* Rock Dove Spotted Dove New Zealand Pigeon* (endemic) Kea* (endemic) Kaka* (endemic) Eastern Rosella* Red-crowned Parakeet* (endemic) Yellow-crowned Parakeet* (endemic) Morepork* (Sacred) Kingfisher* Rifleman* (endemic) Grey Warbler (Grey Gerygone)* (endemic) Stitchbird* (endemic) New Zealand Bellbird* (endemic) Tui (endemic) Kokako* (endemic) Saddleback* (endemic) Tomtit* (endemic) New Zealand Robin* (endemic) Whitehead* (endemic) Yellowhead* (endemic) Brown Creeper (Pipipi)* (endemic) Grey Fantail Australasian Magpie* Eurasian Blackbird Song Thrush European Starling Common Myna* Welcome Swallow* Silvereye (White-eye)* Sky Lark House Sparrow New Zealand Pipit* Dunnock Common Chaffinch European Greenfinch European Goldfinch Common Redpoll* Yellowhammer |
Apteryx owenii Podiceps cristatus Eudyptula minor Pachyptila sp Puffinus griseus Morus serrator Phalacrocorax melanoleucos Phalacrocorax varius Phalacrocorax carbo Stictocarbo (Phalacrocorax) punctatus Cygnus atratus Anser anser Tadorna variegata Anas platyrhynchos Anas superciliosa Anas rhynchotis Aythya novaeseelandiae Ardea (Egretta) novaehollandiae Egretta (Ardea) alba Platalea regia Circus approximans Coturnix ypsilophora Callipepla californica Gallirallus australis Porphyrio porphyrio Porphyrio mantelli Fulica atra Limosa lapponica Arenaria interpres Calidris canutus Haematopus finschi Haematopus unicolor Himantopus himantopus Charadrius obscurus Charadrius bicinctus Anarhynchus frontalis Vanellus miles Larus dominicanus Larus scopulinus Larus bulleri Chlidonias albostriatus Sterna caspia Sterna striata Columba livia Streptopelia chinensis Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae Nestor notabilis Nestor meridionalis Platycercus eximius Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae Cyanoramphus auriceps Ninox novaeseelandiae Halcyon (Todirhamphus) sanctus Acanthisitta chloris Gerygone igata Notiomystis cincta Anthornis melanura Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae Callaeas cinerea Philesturnus (Creadion) carunculatus Petroica macrocephala Petroica australis Mohoua albicilla Mohoua ochrocephala Mohoua novaeseelandiae Rhipidura fuliginosa Gymnorhina tibicen Turdus merula Turdus philomelos Sturnus vulgaris Acridotheres tristis Hirundo neoxena Zosterops lateralis Alauda arvensis Passer domesticus Anthus novaeseelandiae Prunella modularis Fringilla coelebs Carduelis chloris Carduelis carduelis Carduelis flammea Emberiza citrinella |
Trip list of the 82 species seen. 57 lifers are marked with * (following taxanomic order in Thayer's Birder's Diary 2.5) Common names as used by Robertson and Heather (with alternatives given as used by TBD). For example the Grey Warbler is also called the Grey Gerygone. |
The endemic NZ Pigeon, seen here on Kapiti Island |
