Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ: Itineraries

Want a top notch birding trip from a New Zealand port - check out the options below and email us at info@wrybill-tours.com to reserve your place now. As well as being BIRDERS, we really know our marine wildlife and take pride in providing a full service trip, from whales, and dolphins, to sharks and other fish.

We have maintained a record of seabirds seen on all pelagic trips to date, and as part of this all sightings are entered into a database. We also submit reports on all unusual/rare birds seen to the Ornithological Society of New Zealand Rare Birds Committee for verification. See the list of birds reported by us to date, with outcomes of those records here.

Phone/Facimile: + 64 6 323 1441

Pelagic trips out of Houhora and Three Kings - heading north on a stay aboard trip
Date
mid-March 2009 - a four-day live aboard pelagic from Houhora to the Three Kings Islands (65 km north of NZ). This will be the third trip we have organised, following on from the success of the first in early April 2007 (see the trip report here). The trip has been similarly timed to hopefully allow us a good mix of sub-tropical species as well as potentially some early northward dispersal of southern breeding species. Who knows what we will see this time - but we reckon more of the same and who knows what else! Its going to be a great trip! So for more information or to register your interest email us now.	Approx cost $1300 per person inc food

Pelagic trips out of Warkworth - leaving from Sandspit and out into the Hauraki Gulf
Date
14 January 2009	$225 per person
11 February 2009	$225 per person
13 January 2010	$225 per person
10 February 2010	$225 per person
10 March 2010	$225 per person

Pelagic trips out of Gisborne - East Coast, south of Tolaga Bay - our Tolaga Skipper has gone overseas! :(
Date
None scheduled at present...

Pelagic trips out of Hicks Bay - to the remote East Cape and Ranfurly Banks* (*weather dependent)
Date
None scheduled at present...

Pelagic trips out of Whitianga - Coromandel Peninsula
Date
None scheduled at present...

Pelagic trips out of Napier - Hawkes Bay
Date
Dates to be confirmed - - weather dependent we will head out as far as possible towards Lachlan Banks	$140 per person

Pelagic trips out of Stewart Island - half day trips out of Half Moon Bay
Date
30 January 2009	$120 per person
27 February 2009	$120 per person
29 January 2010	$120 per person
26 February 2010	$120 per person
26 March 2010	$120 per person

Map provided courtesy of Backpack New Zealand

Also check out details on 'Our Services', our pelagic trips are just the tip of the ice-berg......how about some pre-trip planning and advice or a birding tour of New Zealand?!