News Archive

Well, 2020 has certainly shaped up to be a strange and difficult year, for many reasons. We at the Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ team are all safe and well here in New Zealand. As we wrote the last update in early May, New Zealand had managed to get to the point of...

We currently find ourselves in unprecedented times.  Thankfully we completed our last tours of the 2019-20 season in early March, just before International travel and shut downs started to occur.  All of our clients were able to safely travel home with memories of an...

Sav is currently a week into his 21-day tour. Going great with his group who are having a great time and getting a lot of good birds despite the very warm temperatures currently. Brent started today with his group, also doing a 21-day tour through New Zealand. Read...

These days it is difficult not to be concerned about the effects of climate change, and our own contribution to it.  Our day to day lives may be lived with this in mind, but travel can seriously increase our carbon footprint, thereby increasing our impact on the...

Well it has been a great few weeks for those on tour.  Lot's of good birds around, and on the whole some fairly reasonable weather.  Brent and his group continue a great run through the country, leaving the North Island with every gettable endemic, and two great...

Brent and his group had a pretty incredible first day today.  A blog is up and will be - sleep deprivation willing - posted pretty much every day.  A pretty incredible first day with amazing views of Northern brown kiwi.  Check out the blog post here and check the...

Well Phil and Matt continue to have a great run on their 21-day tours, despite a little weather along the way.  Sav has just about completed a short 5-day custom tour with some clients, and is on just over 90 species, with no pelagic.  Pretty much cleaned up on all...

Well Phil and his group started their tour just over a week ago, and really are doing well.  They have had great views of Northern brown kiwi and fairy tern in the north, and a great Hauraki Gulf pelagic with New Zealand storm-petrel and all the usual suspects....

Well Sav and has group have started with great success as they head around the country.  The tour is a slightly adjusted two week tour, but they have really been seeing some excellent birds.  If you are after a custom tour, just let us know what it is you want and we...

Well just under a week until we kick off with our first tours of the season.  Sav will be leading the way with our first 'custom' tour, that has a slightly different itinerary to our normal 21-day tours.  We were contacted by this group to do a slight variation on our...