Rarities
This page kept a log of some of the rarities that turned up here in New Zealand, most of which we have been and seen, during the early days of Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ. However, with the advent of BirdingNZ.net, much of this has become redundant, and so for information and photos of specific rarities you are probably better to search there. However, below is a useful resource of some of the rarities that turned up in the early days, with information and images.
Some of the links below will take you to our Trip Reports section, others will open a page dedicated to that rarity. All pages contain photos of the rarity, if you are interested in purchasing or using these photos for any purposes (personal records, web pages, rare bird reports, etc.), then please contact Brent first. Check the Trip Reports section for other rarities which were not photographed and therefore do not appear in the log below.
Rarities log…
Species | Location seen | Date seen |
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Arctic tern | Ashley Rivermouth, Canterbury | 16/05/09 |
Common tern and white-winged black tern | Unahi, near Kaitaia, Far North | 07/04/09 |
Black (white-capped) noddy | Cape Maria van Diemen | 04/04/09 |
Lesser frigatebird and sooty tern | Hauraki Gulf, Auckland | 27/02/09 |
Straw-necked ibis | near Tarras, Central Otago | 23/02/09 |
White-throated needletail | Mt Hobson, Great Barrier Island | 22/01/09 |
Great shearwater | Off Dunedin, Otago | 13/10/08 |
White-headed petrel | Off Kaikoura | 01/06/08 |
White-winged black tern | Unahi, near Kaitaia, Far North | 21/04/08 |
Barn owls | Kaitaia, Far North | 05/04/08 - 03/04/09... |
Hudsonian godwit | Manawatu Estuary | 26/03/08 |
Common tern | Manawatu Estuary | 22/03/08 |
Grey plover | Manawatu Estuary | 14/02/08 |
Glossy ibis & common greenshank | Unahi, near Kaitaia, Far North | 30/03/07 |
Plumed whistling ducks | Woodville | 21/02/07 |
Erect-crested penguin | Kaikoura Peninsula | 16/02/07 |
Australian wood duck | Hokitika sewage ponds, West Coast | 24/01/07 |
Greater sand plover | Manawatu Estuary | 20/01/07 |
Latham's (Japanese) snipe | Whangamarino Wetlands | 16/01/07 |
Channel-billed cuckoo | Motiti Island, Bay of Plenty | 08/01/07 |
Common tern | Kariotahi Beach, Auckland | 08/12/06 |
Intermediate egret | Waiatarua Wetland, Auckland city | 10/11/06 |
White-throated needletail | Oban, Stewart Island | 09/11/06 |
Arctic tern (x2) | Bluff, Southland | 09/11/06 |
Arctic tern | Whatipu Beach, Auckland | 26/09/06 |
Nankeen kestrel | Far North | 29/07/06 |
Yellow-nosed albatross | off Whitianga, Coromandel Peninsula | 25/07/06 |
Red-necked phalarope | Lake Grassmere, Marlborough | 21/07/06 |
Little egret | Muddy Creek, Hawkes Bay | 16/07/06 (long-staying bird) |
Dunlin | Seagrove, Manukau Harbour, Auckland | 18/04/06 - 21/04/06 |
Ruff | Miranda, Firth of Thames & Maketu, BOP | 20/11/05 - 15/01/06 |
Hardhead | Bromley Oxidation Ponds, Christchurch | 18/12/05 |
Intermediate egret | Muddy creek and Ngaruroro estuary, HB | 20/11/05 |
Southern (Antarctic) fulmar | Kaikoura, Canterbury | 28/08/05 |
Black kite | Renwick, Marlborough | 26/08/05 - 28/08/05 |
Latham's (Japanese) snipe | Waipara Rivermouth, Canterbury | 27/02/05 and 03/04/05 |
King penguin | Barrytown, West Coast, South Island | 26/01/05-04/02/05 |
Grey plover | Maketu Estuary, Bay of Plenty | 28/11/04 |
Australian reed warbler | St Anne's Lagoon, Cheviot, Canterbury | 12-28/11/04 |
Intermediate egret | Lawrence, Otago | c. 20/06/04 |
Grey phalarope | Tolaga Bay pelagic | 02/05/04 |
Great knot and Asiatic whimbrel | Manawatu Estuary | 11-15/11/03 |
Little curlew | Manukau Harbour, Auckland | 01/11/03 |
Chatham albatross | Gisborne Pelagic | 27/07/03 |
Thin-billed prion | Gisborne Pelagic | 27/07/03 |
Grey phalarope | Ninety Mile Beach | 06/07/03 |
Brown teal | Waikanae Estuary | 01/05/03 |
South Polar skua | Tolaga Bay | 27/04/03 |
Long-tailed skua | Tolaga Bay | 23/02/03 |
Sanderling | Porangahau Estuary | 21/02/03 |
Australasian little grebe | Lake Rotuehu, near Rotorua | 26/01/03 |
New Zealand storm-petrel..... read on! | Whitianga, Coromandel Peninsula | 25/01/03 |
Broad-billed sandpiper | Karaka, Auckland | 24/01/03 |
Common tern | Manawatu Estuary | 20/01/03 |
Red-necked phalarope | Lake Grassmere, Marlborough | 02/12/02 & 13/01/03 |
Chinstrap penguin | Kaikoura, Canterbury | 29/11/02 |
Chestnut teal | Manawatu Estuary | 11/05/02 |
Black kite | Mercer, south of Auckland | 09/05/02 |