Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ: Rarities

This page aims to keep a log of some of the rarities that turn up here in New Zealand, most of which we have been and seen. There is a list below which will be updated at regular intervals. 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

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

Rarities submitted to OSNZ Rare Birds Committee
Species	Location seen	Date seen	Who	Outcome

Brown Skua	Tangimoana	14/11/96	Sav	Accepted
3 WWBlack Tern	L. Omanu	26/01-25/04/97	Sav	Accepted
Great Knot	Riv Man Est	6-23/02/97	Sav	Accepted
Hudsonian Godwit	Miranda	27/02/97	Sav	Accepted
Pomarine Skua	Foxton.B	07/03/97	Sav	Accepted
6 Marsh sandpiper	Miranda	23/03/98	Sav	Accepted
Chestnut Teal	RME	1-7/06/98	Sav	Accepted
Great Knot	RME	24-30/10/98	Sav	Accepted
2 WWBlack Tern	Westshore	2 & 21/11/98	Sav	Accepted
Common Tern	RME	3-17/01/99	B&S	Accepted
WWBlack Tern	RME	31/01-18/04/99	Sav	Accepted
Chestnut Teal	RME	20/03 –19/06/99	Sav	Accepted
Arctic Tern	RME	02/04/99	Sav	Accepted
Japanese Snipe	RME	12/12/99-02/04/00	Sav	Accepted
Shore Plover	RME	03/01/00	Sav	Accepted
WWBlack Tern	RME	09/01/00	Sav	Accepted
Common Tern	RME	21/01/00	Sav	Accepted
Aust Little Grebe	Foxton Beach	29/10/00	Sav	Accepted
Sooty Albatross	Napier	19/11/00	Brent	Rejected
Japanese Snipe	RME	12/12/00-11/02/01	Sav	Accepted
WWBlack Tern	L. Omanu	17/12/00-07/01/01	Sav	Accepted
Wandering Tattler	Kaikoura	27-28/12/00	Sav	Accepted
Fiordland Crested Penguin	Kaikoura	28/12/00	Sav	Accepted
Grey-tailed Tattler	Ahuriri	17/09/01	Brent	Accepted
Large Sand Dotterel	RME	8-10/10/01	B&S	Accepted
Wandering Tattler	Kaikoura	27/10/01	B&S	Accepted
Yellow-eyed Penguin	Kaikoura	27/10/01	Brent	Accepted
Great Knot	RME	25/11/01	Sav	Accepted
2 Gull-billed Tern	RME	15-19/01/02	Sav	Accepted
Snares Crested Penguin	Clifton	07/02/02	Brent	Accepted
Fiordland Crested Penguin	Whirinaki	11/02/02	Brent	Accepted
Phoenix Petrel	Foxton B.	30/03/02	B&S	Rejected
Soft-plumaged petrel	Foxton Beach and Manawatu Stadium	27/05/02, 28/05/02, 29/05/02	B&S	Accepted
Chinstrap Penguin	Kaikoura	29/11/02	Sav	Accepted
Ruff	Ahuriri	26/12/02	Brent	Accepted
Shore Plover	Westshore	27-29/12/02	Brent	Accepted
Common Tern	RME	20/01/03	B&S	Accepted
Long-tailed Skua	Tolaga Bay	23/02/03	B&S	Accepted
Common tern	Waitangi, Hawke's Bay	18/08/03	Brent	Accepted
Chatham albatross	Kaikoura	03/09/03	Brent	Accepted
Sanderling	RME	27/10/03	S&B	Accepted
Shore Plover	RME	01/11/03	Sav	Accepted
4 Great knot	RME	11/11/03-14/12/03	Sav	Accepted
Lesser yellowlegs	Wanstead Lagoon, Hawkes Bay	03/01/04	Sav	Accepted
Grey phalarope	Tolaga Bay	02/05/04	S&B	Being prepared
Thin-billed prion	Gisborne Pelagic		Brent	Pending
Chatham albatross	Gisborne Pelagic		Brent	Pending
Common tern	RME		Sav	Being prepared
Arctic tern	RME		Sav	Being prepared


NB that the observer names are those that are on the UBR. Also this is not a list of birds that only we have found, or seen, just those we submitted.

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