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Kaikoura (birds found here)
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Photographs: David Curtis
 
Wandering albatross
 
Giant petrels
Birds found at Kaikoura
 
(Bird life commonly seen throughout the year in and around Kaikoura includes):—
Little blue penguinEudyptula minor
Wandering AlbatrossDiomedea exulans
Royal AlbatrossDiomedea epomophora
Shy MollymawkDiomedea cauta
Black-browed MollymawkDiomedea melanophys
Buller's MollymawkDiomedea bulleri
Giant PetrelMacronecteus halli
Buller’s ShearwaterPuffinus bulleri
Sooty ShearwaterPuffinus griseus
Flesh-footed ShearwaterPuffinus carneipes
Fluttering ShearwaterPuffinus gavia
Hutton's ShearwaterPuffinus huttoni
Short-tailed ShearwaterPuffinus tenuiostris
Common Diving PetrelPelecanoides urinatrix
Westland PetrelProcelleria westlandica
Grey petrelProcellaria cinerea
Antarctic FulmarFulmarus glacialoides
Cape PigeonDaption capense
Fairy PrionPachyptila turtur
Grey-faced Petrel Pterodroma macroptera
Australasian GannetMorus serrator
Black ShagPhalacrocorax carbo
Pied ShagPhalacrocorax varius
Little ShagPhalacrocorax melanoleucus
Spotted ShagStictocarbo punctatus
Arctic SkuaStercorarius parasiticus
Southern Black Backed GullLarus dominicanus
Red-billed GullLarus scopulinus
Caspian Tern Sterna caspia
White-fronted TernSterna striata
(page last updated  17 May 2007)    
 
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