This list is some of the species seen at Miranda in recent weeks:
Last updated 20/10/2009
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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 - |
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New Zealand Species |
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Wrybill
150 South Island Pied Oystercatcher Several 100's
Variable Oystercatcher
New Zealand Dotterel 13 Banded Dotterel 6 Caspian Tern 15 Little Tern -
Black-billed Gull
Red-billed Gull 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
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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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