Miranda Naturalists' Trust
Recent Sightings

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

Last updated  10/03/2010

Arctic Migrants and Vagrants: 

Bar-tailed Godwit              5500

Hudsonian Godwit           

Red Knot                          2000

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper    14 

Pacific Golden Plover      70

Red-necked Stint             6

Turnstone                        11

Little Whimbrel                 -   

Curlew Sandpiper            4        

Terek Sandpiper               -

Pectoral Sandpiper          -

Large Sand Dotterel         - 

Arctic skua                       -

 
New Zealand Species  

Wrybill                                                   2000

South Island Pied Oystercatcher         2000-3000   

Variable Oystercatcher                         Several

New Zealand Dotterel                           Several

Banded Dotterel                                    120

Caspian Tern                                        Several

Little Tern                                               1

Black-billed Gull                                    Many

Red-billed Gull                                      Many

White-fronted Tern                                Several

Pied Stilt (incl. smudgy)                        Many

Black Stilt                                               -

Royal Spoonbill                                     10    

White Heron                                          -                                

Banded Rail                                           -

Bittern                                                    -                                                   

Spotless Crake                                      -                                       

NZ Shoveler                                          -

Grey Teal                                              -

Brown Teal                                            -

Little Black Shag                                   -

                                

 
 

Notes: A really good time of year to get yourself (and your family and friends!) down to the shellbanks at Miranda. The wrybill and pied oystercatchers are back from their southern breeding areas to spend the winter up here and the arctic migrants are fuelling up and starting to colour up for their journey north to their breeding zones. A good selection of sandpipers too. 

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