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Native and Naturalized (62)

  1. South Island Oystercatcher Haematopus finschi
    # Count: 6
    Date:
    Observer: Nancy O'Keefe
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  2. Variable Oystercatcher Haematopus unicolor
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Nancy O'Keefe
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  3. Silver Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Nancy O'Keefe
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  4. Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Nancy O'Keefe
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  5. Paradise Shelduck Tadorna variegata
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  6. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  7. Gray Teal Anas gracilis
    # Count: 4
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  8. Pied Stilt Himantopus leucocephalus
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  9. Black-billed Gull Chroicocephalus bulleri
    # Count: 14
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  10. Little Pied Cormorant Microcarbo melanoleucos
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  11. Spotted Shag Phalacrocorax punctatus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  12. Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius
    # Count: 5
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  13. Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia
    # Count: 21
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  14. Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  15. Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
    # Count: 5
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  16. European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  17. Eurasian Blackbird Turdus merula
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  18. House Sparrow Passer domesticus
    # Count: 5
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  19. European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
    # Count: 4
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  20. Rock Pigeon Columba livia
    # Count: 12
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  21. White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  22. Gray Gerygone Gerygone igata
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  23. Silvereye Zosterops lateralis
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  24. Song Thrush Turdus philomelos
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  25. Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  26. New Zealand Bellbird Anthornis melanura
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  27. European Greenfinch Chloris chloris
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  28. Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Russell Cannings
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  29. Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  30. Australasian Swamphen Porphyrio melanotus
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  31. Dunnock Prunella modularis
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Ben Ackerley
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  32. Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: aalap chikhalikar
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  33. Little Owl Athene noctua
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Ben Ackerley
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  34. Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Chalcites lucidus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: William Brice
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  35. Swamp Harrier Circus approximans
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: William Brice
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  36. White-fronted Tern Sterna striata
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  37. Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella
    # Count: 105
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  38. New Zealand Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  39. Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  40. Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Juan Esparza
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  41. Black Swan Cygnus atratus
    # Count: 6
    Date:
    Observer: Christine McCormack
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  42. California Quail Callipepla californica
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Christine McCormack
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  43. Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Don Lovett
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  44. New Zealand Pigeon Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  45. Double-banded Plover Anarhynchus bicinctus
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  46. Australasian Shoveler Spatula rhynchotis
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  47. New Zealand Scaup Aythya novaeseelandiae
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  48. Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Warwick Allen
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  49. Great Egret Ardea alba
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Georgie Archibald
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  50. Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: JANE MURTISHAW
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  51. Wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Alfie Benbow
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  52. Canada Goose Branta canadensis
    # Count: 15
    Date:
    Observer: Andy Martin
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  53. Tomtit Petroica macrocephala
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Andy Martin
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  54. Black-fronted Tern Chlidonias albostriatus
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: John Hague
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  55. Yellow-crowned Parakeet Cyanoramphus auriceps
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Suzanne Fenwick
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  56. Little Penguin Eudyptula minor
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Adam Colley
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  57. Redpoll Acanthis flammea
    # Count: 2
    Date:
    Observer: Annika Tumbrinck
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  58. Black-fronted Dotterel Thinornis melanops
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Phyllis Weintraub
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  59. Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Phyllis Weintraub
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  60. Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Harold Hester
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  61. Pacific Reef-Heron Egretta sacra
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Harold Hester
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  62. Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa
    # Count: X
    Date:
    Observer: Russell Woodford
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve

Exotic: Escapee (1)

  1. Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
    # Count: 1
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve

Hybrids (1)

  1. Mallard x Pacific Black Duck (hybrid) Anas platyrhynchos x superciliosa
    # Count: 4
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve

Additional Taxa (3)

  1. passerine sp. Passeriformes sp.
    # Count: 4
    Date:
    Observer: Don Goodale
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  2. Silver/Black-billed Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae/bulleri
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Don Lovett
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve
  3. oystercatcher sp. Haematopus sp.
    # Count: 3
    Date:
    Observer: Suzanne Fenwick
    Location: Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai--McCormacks Bay Reserve