I had a few weeks birding along South Island and North Island (as well as Stewart Island) in October/November 2019. It was my second trip to New Zealand but still plenty of new birds and some good photo opportunities to go after. We had several pelagic trips and saw some many cool seabirds. Lots of endemic birds too, including some really rare ones, such as New Zealand Storm Petrel, Black Stilt and Blue Duck!
Some of the native specials included Southern Brown Kiwi, Pipipi, Whitehead, Yellowhead, North Island Kokako, North Island Saddleback, South Island Saddleback, Wrybill, Double-banded Plover, Black-fronted Tern, White-fronted Tern, New Zealand Fantail, Grey Gerygone, New Zealand Bellbird, South Island Robin, North Island Robin, Weka, New Zealand Kaka, Kea, Rifleman, Stitchbird, New Zealand Fernbird, New Zealand Pipit, Brown Teal, and New Zealand Tomtit.
Seabirds were very well represented and included Yellow-eyed Penguin, Fiordland Penguin, Little Penguin, Antipodean Albatross, Buller's Albatross, White-capped Albatross, Salvin's Albatross, Wandering Albatross, Black-browed Albatross, Northern Royal Albatross, Northern Giant Petrel, Cape Petrel, Brown Skua, Grey-faced Petrel, Cook's Petrel, Pycroft's Petrel, Fairy Prion, Broad-billed Prion, White-chinned Petrel, Black Petrel, Westland Petrel, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Buller's Shearwater, Hutton's Shearwater, Fluttering Shearwater, Little Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, and Common Diving Petrel.
The passerines of New Zealand are some of the oldest in the world and the songs of the birds there are so incredible and unique. The Tui is one of these and has an amazing song, you can hear a sample of it on my ebird checklist here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S61168701
New Zealand has a ton of introduced species and it's always odd to see species such as Yellowhammer, Eurasian Skylark, Common Blackbird, Song Thrush, Eurasian Goldfinch, Common Chaffinch, and Lesser Redpoll so far from home!
The landscape on the South Island particularly was stunning and worth going to see even on its own right and the food was great throughout.
Here are a few pics of some of the birds we found...
Some of the native specials included Southern Brown Kiwi, Pipipi, Whitehead, Yellowhead, North Island Kokako, North Island Saddleback, South Island Saddleback, Wrybill, Double-banded Plover, Black-fronted Tern, White-fronted Tern, New Zealand Fantail, Grey Gerygone, New Zealand Bellbird, South Island Robin, North Island Robin, Weka, New Zealand Kaka, Kea, Rifleman, Stitchbird, New Zealand Fernbird, New Zealand Pipit, Brown Teal, and New Zealand Tomtit.
Seabirds were very well represented and included Yellow-eyed Penguin, Fiordland Penguin, Little Penguin, Antipodean Albatross, Buller's Albatross, White-capped Albatross, Salvin's Albatross, Wandering Albatross, Black-browed Albatross, Northern Royal Albatross, Northern Giant Petrel, Cape Petrel, Brown Skua, Grey-faced Petrel, Cook's Petrel, Pycroft's Petrel, Fairy Prion, Broad-billed Prion, White-chinned Petrel, Black Petrel, Westland Petrel, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Buller's Shearwater, Hutton's Shearwater, Fluttering Shearwater, Little Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, and Common Diving Petrel.
The passerines of New Zealand are some of the oldest in the world and the songs of the birds there are so incredible and unique. The Tui is one of these and has an amazing song, you can hear a sample of it on my ebird checklist here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S61168701
New Zealand has a ton of introduced species and it's always odd to see species such as Yellowhammer, Eurasian Skylark, Common Blackbird, Song Thrush, Eurasian Goldfinch, Common Chaffinch, and Lesser Redpoll so far from home!
The landscape on the South Island particularly was stunning and worth going to see even on its own right and the food was great throughout.
Here are a few pics of some of the birds we found...
Antipodean Albatross
Arctic Jaeger (chasing a Silver Gull)
Australasian Gannet
Black Stilt
Black-fronted Tern
Blue Duck
Brown Teal
Buller's Albatross
Buller's Shearwater
Cape Petrel
Cape Petrel
Common Diving Petrel
Cook's Petrel
Cook's Petrel
Double-banded Plover
Fairy Prion
Fiordland Penguin
Kea
Kea
Kea
Little Penguin
Morepork
New Zealand Bellbird
New Zealand Fantail
New Zealand Fernbird
New Zealand Grebe
New Zealand Kaka
New Zealand Pigeon
New Zealand Pipit
New Zealand Scaup
New Zealand Storm Petrel
New Zealand Tomit
North Island Kokako
North Island Robin
North Island Saddleback
Northern Giant Petrel
Northern Royal Albatross
Northern Royal Albatross
Pipipi
Red-crowned Parakeet
Rifleman
Salvin's Albatross
Salvin's Albatross
White-capped Albatross
Silver (Red-billed) Gull
South Island Pied Oystercatcher
South Island Robin
South Island Saddleback
Southern Brown Kiwi
Spotted Shag
Stitchbird
Tui
Variable Oystercatcher
Wandering Albatross
Weka
Westland Petrel
White-faced Storm Petrel
White-fronted Tern
Whitehead
Wrybill
Yellow-eyed Penguin
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