Observer: Sandy Dillard

Comment: I only had one day of birding here and it rained the whole day. However, I still got out and about and saw some of the local birds. Most of the sea birds I got off the coast or pulling into the port of Wellington. On our excursion, I drove up the west coast of the N. island to some marshes and then came home.

Number of Species: 38
 

Albatross, Shy (Chatham Is.ssp) Albatross, Black-browed Albatross, Wandering Albatross, Royal Albatross, Buller's Petrel, Hall's Giant Petrel, Cape Petrel, Great-winged Petrel, White-chinned Petrel, Grey Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Fluttering Shearwater, Hutton's Storm-Petrel, Grey-backed Shelduck, Australian Mallard Shoveler, Australian Spoonbill, Royal Harrier, Swamp Swamphen, Purple Godwit, Bar-tailed Knot, Red Stint, Red-necked Wrybill Lapwing, Masked Gull, Kelp Tern, Caspian Fantail, Grey Magpie, Australasian Blackbird, Eurasian Starling, European Swallow, Welcome Silver-eye Lark, Sky Sparrow, House Chaffinch, Common Greenfinch, European Goldfinch, European

Thalassarche cauta Thalassarche melanophris Diomedea exulans Diomedea epomophora Diomedea bulleri Macronectes halli Daption capense Pterodroma macroptera Procellaria aequinoctialis Procellaria cinerea Puffinus griseus Puffinus gavia Puffinus huttoni Garrodia nereis Tadorna tadornoides Anas platyrhynchos Anas rhynchotis Platalea regia Circus approximans Porphyrio porphyrio Limosa lapponica Calidris canutus Calidris ruficollis Anarhynchus frontalis Vanellus miles Larus dominicanus Sterna caspia Rhipidura fuliginosa Gymnorhina tibicen Turdus merula Sturnus vulgaris Hirundo neoxena Zosterops lateralis Alauda arvensis Passer domesticus Fringilla coelebs Carduelis chloris Carduelis carduelis

Sei Whale? off the coast of NZ leg 181

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