News Archive

We are really pleased to announce our newest member of the Wrybill team - Neil Robertson!  We pride ourself on the fact that our guides are all birders, that love birding, but are passionate about sharing this with our clients.  Neil is just such a person, and we are...

Well this summer has been a pretty outstanding one for our tours and for mega-vagrants.  The amazing thing is that all of the vagrants have been twitchable, it really has been a rather interesting season.  First up was a Wilson's phalarope in Napier in November, then...

Well another year is almost over, with Christmas 2016 having passed and New Years Eve fast approaching!  Our 2016-17 season has gone well so far, with three 21-day tours during November and December 2016.  Brent was also onboard the 'Spirit of Enderby' for several New...

Well the British Birdwatching Fair is over and the response was amazing! A lot of people are obviously planning a trip to New Zealand, and spaces on our tours both this season and next are filling already. So if you are interested in a tour with us, don't delay!...

Both Sav and Brent will be at the British Birdwatching Fair which starts Friday 19 Aug and runs through to the end of Sunday 21 Aug.  We will be sharing a stand with our good friends from Albatross Encounter, and will be located with the other New Zealand operators in...

We have just launched this new website - with a lot of help from our good friend Richard Atkins - on 23 May 2016.  During the switchover to the new site, there may be a number of links which have been broken, and certainly not all of the information from the old...

Our 21-day tours are proving to be incredibly popular this year again, with three departures before (as well as Brent in the Southern Ocean on some of our NZ Sub-Antarctic tour) and currently three departures after, the New Year. This means that all of our guides are...

Brent is very proud to announce that his book "Birds of New Zealand: A photographic guide" by Paul Scofield and Brent Stephenson has just been reprinted in New Zealand. First published in September 2013, the book sold out in just over two years, and has now been...

We now have pelagic dates on our Pelagics page through to late 2017. Early 2018 dates to follow soon...but get in quick as the boats are filling!

We are offering a New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands Tour - Nov 2016 - on a small ship through all of the New Zealand sub-Antarctic island groups. Includes the Chatham Islands, Bounty Islands, Antipodes, Campbell Island, Macquarie, and the Auckland Islands (two days)...