New Zealand 
October 22 - November 10, 2007

Birds

Stewart Island (Southern) Brown Kiwi Pukeko (Purple Swamphen)
North Island Brown Kiwi Takahe
Okarito Brown Kiwi Eurasian Coot
Fiordland Crested Penguin Pied Oystercatcher
Yellow-eyed Penguin Variable Oystercatcher
Little Blue Penguin Pied (White-headed) Stilt
Australasian Grebe Black Stilt
New Zealand Grebe Masked Lapwing
Great Crested Grebe Pacific Golden-Plover
“Gibson’s” Wandering Albatross Banded Dotterel
“Antipodean” Wandering Albatross New Zealand Dotterel
Northern Royal Albatross Wrybill
Southern Royal Albatross Bar-tailed Godwit
Black-browed Albatross Ruddy Turnstone
Campbell’s (Black-browed) Albatross Red Knot
Salvin’s Albatross Red-necked Stint
White-capped Albatross Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Buller’s Albatross Brown Skua
Southern Giant Petrel Parasitic Jaeger (Arctic Skua)
Northern Giant Petrel Kelp Gull
Southern (Antarctic) Fulmar Red-billed Gull
Cape Petrel Black-billed Gull
Great-winged (Grey-faced) Petrel Caspian Tern
Mottled Petrel White-fronted Tern
Cook’s Petrel Fairy Tern
Fairy Prion Black-fronted Tern
White-chinned Petrel Rock Pigeon
Black (Parkinson’s) Petrel African Collared-Dove (Barbary Dove)
Westland Petrel Spotted Dove
Flesh-footed Shearwater New Zealand Pigeon
Buller’s Shearwater Kea
Sooty Shearwater Kaka
Hutton's Shearwater Red-fronted Parakeet
Fluttering Shearwater Yellow-fronted Parakeet
Grey-backed Storm-Petrel Eastern Rosella
White-faced Storm-Petrel Shining-Bronze Cuckoo
New Zealand Storm-Petrel Little Owl
Common Diving-petrel Morepork
Australasian Gannet Sacred Kingfisher
Little Black Cormorant Rifleman
Great Cormorant Eurasian Skylark
Pied Cormorant Welcome Swallow
King Shag Australasian Pipit
Stewart Island Shag Dunnock
Spotted Shag Eurasian Blackbird
Little Pied Cormorant Song Thrush
Great Egret (White Heron) Fernbird
White-faced Heron New Zealand (Grey) Fantail
Cattle Egret Tomtit
Royal Spoonbill New Zealand Robin
Black Swan Whitehead
Canada Goose Yellowhead
Cape Barren Goose Brown Creeper (Pipipi)
Paradise Shelduck Grey Warbler (Gerygone)
Blue Duck Silver-eye
Grey Teal Stitchbird
Brown Teal New Zealand Bellbird
Mallard Tui
Pacific Black Duck (Grey Duck) Saddleback
Australasian Shoveler Australasian Magpie
New Zealand Scaup Common Myna
Australasian Harrier European Starling
New Zealand Falcon Yellowhammer
Wild Turkey Cirl Bunting
California Quail Chaffinch
Ring-necked Pheasant European Greenfinch
Indian Peafowl Common Redpoll
Weka European Goldfinch
Buff-banded Rail House Sparrow

Mammals

Dusky Dolphin European Hedgehog
Common Dolphin European Hare
Hector’s Dolphin European Rabbit
NZ Fur Seal - also one killing and eating an octopus Black Rat
Hooker’s (NZ) Sealion Brush-tailed Possum
Brushtail Possum

Reptiles and Amphibians
Frog sp (introduced?) Lizard sp
Common Gecko (NZ endemic) Skink sp

Butterflies and other insects
Cabbage White Red Admiral (Australasian)
Monarch Ringlet sp
Copper 2 spp Wood Weta

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Interislander Ferry from Wellington to Picton


Franz Josef Glacier


Hutton's Shearwaters in Kaikoura Bay


Kathryn walking with Greg the Takahe


King Shags in Marlborough Sound


Lewis Pass


Marlborough Sound


Milford Sound Cruise


Mt Cook and the Southern Alps


All aboard for another pelagic trip


NZ Robin on Motuara Island


Kitted up for our Okarito Kiwi Trip


Punakaiki - Pancake Rocks


Gannet Colony at Muriwai


Pair of Blue Ducks


North Island Brown Kiwi asleep in its burrow


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