Te Rakau Bird List

Resident and regular sightings: Tui, Bellbird, NZ Pigeon or Kereru, Grey Warbler, NZ Fantail, Paradise Shelduck, Grey Duck, Mallard, Swamp Harrier, Morepork Owl, Welcome Swallow, Eurasian Blackbird, Song Thrush, Common Starling, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Yellowhammer, Common Chaffinch, European Goldfinch, Silvereye, Australian Magpie, California Quail.

Casual Sightings: NZ Falcon, Eastern Rosella, Sacred Kingfisher, Shinning
Bronze-cuckoo, Pukeko, Rock Pigeon, White Faced Heron, Black Shag, Masked
Lapwing or Spur-winged Plover.

Pounui Lagoons Bird List

Black Swan, Paradise Shelduck, Grey Duck, Mallard, NZ Scaup, Canada Goose, Royal Spoonbill – seasonal, White-faced Heron, Pied Stilt, Black-fronted Dotterel, Australasian Bittern, NZ Pipit, Eurasian Skylark, Swamp Harrier.

Onoke Spit Bird List

Banded Dotterel, Black-backed or Kelp Gull, Red Billed Gull, Variable Oyster Catcher, Masked lapwing or Spur Winged Plover, Black Shag or Great Cormorant, Pied Shag, Little Black & Little Pied Shag, Caspian Tern for nesting, White-fronted Tern, Black-fronted Tern, Australasian Gannett – occasionally.