New Zealand Species List

New Zealand Fur Seal

Brown Kiwi*

NZ White-capped Albatross (Mollymawk)*
Salvin’s Albatross*
Black-browed Albatross
Buller’s Albatross*
Northern Giant Petrel*
Sooty Shearwater*
Fluttering Shearwater*
Hutton’s Shearwater
Flesh-footed Shearwater
Buller’s Shearwater
Common Diving Petrel*
Black Petrel
Fairy Prion
Cook’s Petrel*
Yellow-eyed Penguin
Blue Penguin*
Fiordland Crested Penguin*
Australasian Gannet*
Black Shag*
Pied Shag*
Little Black Shag
Little Shag
Spotted Shag*
King Shag
Stewart Island Shag*
White Heron
White-faced Heron*
Reef Heron
Royal Spoonbill
Black Swan*
Canada Goose
Paradise Shelduck
Blue Duck
Mallard
Grey Duck*
Grey Teal
New Zealand Scaup
Australasian Harrier*
New Zealand Falcon
California Quail
Weka*
Pukeko
Pied Oystercatcher*
Variable Oystercatcher*
Spur-winged Plover
Pied Stilt
Banded Dotterel*
NZ Dotterel
Arctic Jeager (Skua)
Black-backed Gull*
Red-billed Gull*
Black-billed Gull
Caspian Tern
White-fronted Tern*
Black-fronted Tern
New Zealand Pigeon*
Barbary Dove
Kea
Kaka*
Eastern Rosella
Yellow-crowned Parakeet (Kakariki)*
Orange-fronted Parakeet*
Red-crowned Parakeet*
Shining Cuckoo*
Long-tailed Cuckoo
Morepork*
Kingfisher*
Welcome Swallow*
Rifleman
Silvereye*
Grey Warbler*
Blackbird*
Song Thrush*
Dunnock*
New Zealand Pipit*
Fernbird*
Brown Creeper*
Yellowhead*
Fantail*
Tomtit*
New Zealand Robin*
Tui*
Bellbird*
Saddleback*
Hosue Sparrow
Chaffinch*
Redpole*
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Starling
Myna
Australian Magpie
Bottlenose Dolphin
Hector’s Dolphin
NZ Fur Seal
Hooker’s (NZ) Sealion

* I have already raved about our time on Stewart Island, the * indicates that we saw this species on Stewart Island, could mean that we also saw it elsewhere, but illustrates what a great place it was!

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