Miranda Naturalists' Trust
Recent Sightings

This list is some of the species seen at Miranda in recent weeks:

Last updated  20/10/2009

Arctic Migrants and Vagrants: 

Bar-tailed Godwit              5500

Hudsonian Godwit            1 

Red Knot                          4000

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper    1 

Pacific Golden Plover      6

Red-necked Stint             -

Turnstone                        11

Little Whimbrel                 -   

Curlew Sandpiper             -         

Terek Sandpiper               -

Pectoral Sandpiper          -

Large Sand Dotterel         - 

Arctic skua                       -

 
New Zealand Species  

Wrybill                                                   150

South Island Pied Oystercatcher         Several 100's  

Variable Oystercatcher                         Several

New Zealand Dotterel                           13

Banded Dotterel                                    6

Caspian Tern                                        15

Little Tern                                               -

Black-billed Gull                                    Many

Red-billed Gull                                      Many

White-fronted Tern                                Several

Pied Stilt (incl. smudgy)                        500

Black Stilt                                               -

Royal Spoonbill                                      22    

White Heron                                          1                                

Banded Rail                                           -

Bittern                                                    -                                                   

Spotless Crake                                      -                                       

NZ Shoveler                                          2

Grey Teal                                              -

Brown Teal                                            -

Little Black Shag                                   16

                                

 
 

Notes: Spring is in the air and the migrants are back! Whilst the majority of the wrybill and SI pied oystercatchers have already headed south to breed for the summer, the mudflats of the Firth are refuelling the godwits and knot as they arrive back in New Zealand.

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Firth of Thames, 283 East Coast Rd, R.D. 3, POKENO, New Zealand
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