Although it was still very early spring in New Zealand, I managed to see seventy species of birds including target ones such as the Kea, Wrybill, and Black Stilt. I'm in the middle of posting updates on my blog. We travelled almost all the way around the South Island, but I missed going to Kaikoura and the Marlborough Sounds.
The species I saw were:
1. California Quail
2. Common Pheasant
3. Cape Barren Goose
4. Canada Goose
5. Black Swan
6. Paradise Shelduck
7. Mallard
8. Pacific Black Duck
9. Australasian Shoveler
10. New Zealand Scaup
11. Fiordland Penguin
12. Little Penguin
13. Yellow-eyed Penguin
14. Northern Royal Albatross
15. Shy Albatross
16. Salvin’s Albatross
17. Great Crested Grebe
18. Eastern Great Egret
19. White-faced Heron
20. Pacific Reef Heron
21. Australasian Gannet
22. Little Pied Cormorant
23. Spotted Shag
24. Little Black Cormorant
25. Australian Pied Cormorant
26. Great Cormorant
27. Bronze Shag
28. Swamp Harrier
29. New Zealand Falcon
30. Weka
31. Buff-banded Rail
32. Purple Swamphen
33. Eurasian Coot
34. South Island Oystercatcher
35. Variable Oystercatcher
36. White-headed Stilt
37. Black Stilt
38. Masked Lapwing
39. Double-banded Plover
40. Wrybill
41. Red-billed Gull
42. Black-billed Gull
43. Kelp Gull
44. White-fronted Tern
45. Black-fronted Tern
46. Common Pigeon
47. New Zealand Pigeon
48. Kea
49. Yellow-crowned Parakeet
50. Sacred Kingfisher
51. Rifleman
52. New Zealand Bellbird
53. Tui
54. Gray Gerygone
55. Pipipi
56. Australian Magpie
57. New Zealand Fantail
58. Tomtit
59. Eurasian Skylark
60. Welcome Swallow
61. Silvereye
62. Common Starling
63. Common Blackbird
64. Song Thrush
65. House Sparrow
66. Dunnock
67. New Zealand Pipit
68. European Goldfinch
69. Common Chaffinch
70. Yellowhammer
Enjoyed reading your blog, New Zealand if a place very high on my list to visit.
Enjoyed the Blog, brings back memories of visits to NZ.
Phil