Miranda Naturalists' Trust
Recent Sightings

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

Last updated  01/07/2008

Arctic Migrants and Vagrants: 

Bar-tailed Godwit             700+

Hudsonian Godwit            

Red Knot                          350+

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper     

Pacific Golden Plover      

Red-necked Stint             

Turnstone                         7

Little Whimbrel                

Curlew Sandpiper            

Terek Sandpiper              

Large Sand Dotterel        

 
New Zealand Species  

Wrybill                                                  2700

South Island Pied Oystercatcher            

Variable Oystercatcher                           

New Zealand Dotterel                             12

Banded Dotterel                                      90

Caspian Tern                                      

Little Tern                                              

Black-billed Gull                           

Red-billed Gull

White-fronted Tern                                 

Pied Stilt    

Royal Spoonbill                                      17      

White Heron                                           1

Banded Rail                                 

Bittern                                                     2

Spotless Crake                                       

NZ Shoveler

 

Notes: Whilst the arctic migrants are away producing their offspring, here at Miranda the annual turn out of wrybill can be seen at very close quarters on the Stilt pools and shell bank by the hide. This number of wrybill (an endemic internal migrant) represents over half the entire population in the world.   The sight of 175 spoonbills is a treat for the visitor too. Look out for flagged godwits too - four of this year's transmitter birds decided not to make the long journey to the arctic this year. D7 was sighted recently and the transmitters show three others in the area too. Please report any sightings of these birds to the centre - Thanks.

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Miranda Shorebird Centre
Firth of Thames, 283 East Coast Rd, R.D. 3, POKENO, New Zealand
Phone / Fax: +64 9 232 2781 Email:admin@miranda-shorebird.org.nz
 

Miranda Shorebird Centre
Firth of Thames, 283 East Coast Rd, R.D. 3, POKENO, New Zealand
Phone / Fax: +64 9 232 2781 Email:admin@miranda-shorebird.org.nz