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NZ Seabirds - What to See and Where

List of all the major locations for seeing seabirds in New Zealand, with descriptions and map.

Document created 09 June 2003, last updated 30 July 2003

Royal Northern Albatross at Taiaroa Heads, Dunedin   Taiaroa Head on Otago Peninsula is the only place in the world where northern royal albatrosses, the largest of all albatross species, have a colony on the mainland, a few minutes drive from Dunedin City. Photo courtesy of Tourism Dunedin.
"New Zealand is one of the major seabird centres of the world. Because of the country's extensive coastline and many inshore and offshore islands, it is possible for the keen observer to see more seabirds here than in most other countries. Three-quarters of the world's albatrosses, penguins and petrels and half the shearwaters and shags are to be found here, along with numerous representatives of a number of other groups. Moreover, a good proportion of these can be viewed without going far offshore".
Brian Parkinson: Field Guide to New Zealand Seabirds.
Map of wildlife sightseeing, North Island  
REGION: NORTHLAND
Bay of Islands: Shags, gannets, blue penguins
Poor Knights Islands (boat trip to): Shearwaters and petrels, especially Buller's shearwaters (2.5 million of them around the Poor Knights, their only breeding ground in NZ) and Pycroft's petrels
Great Barrier Island (boat trip to): Shearwaters, petrels, blue penguins, gannets, terns, arctic skuas (in summer)

REGION: AUCKLAND
Hauraki Gulf: Gannets, gulls, terns, arctic skuas (in summer)
Hauraki Gulf (from boats): Gannets, shearwaters, petrels, blue penguins
Muriwai: Gannet colony on mainland

REGION: HAWKES BAY
Cape Kidnappers Gannet colony on mainland

REGION: WELLINGTON
Cook Straits (from ferries): Albatross, mollymawks, shearwaters, petrels, Gannets

Map of wildlife sightseeing locations, Sth Isl.  
REGION: MARLBOROUGH
Kaikoura Peninsula: Albatross, mollymawks

REGION: NELSON
Farewell Spit: Gannets

REGION: CANTERBURY
Oamaru: Blue Penguin Colony, yellow-eyed penguin

REGION: WEST COAST
Monro Beach (Lake Moeraki), Knights Point, Jackson Head: Fiordland crested penguins

REGION: OTAGO
Moeraki Lighthouse; Yellow-eyed penguins
Otago Peninsula: Yellow-eyed penguins, northern royal albatross colony

REGION: SOUTHLAND
Catlins Coast, Nugget Point: Yellow-eyed penguins
Stewart Island: Yellow-eyed penguins
Foveaux Strait ferries: Albatross, mollymawks, shearwaters, petrels

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Royal Northern Albatross at Taiaroa Heads, Dunedin Taiaroa Head on Otago Peninsula is the only place in the world where northern royal albatrosses, the largest of all albatross species, have a colony on the mainland, a few minutes drive from Dunedin City. Photo courtesy of Tourism Dunedin.

Map of wildlife sightseeing, North Island

Map of wildlife sightseeing locations, Sth Isl.

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