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Rekohu, the Chatham Islands  (birds found here)
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Photographs: Dave Curtis
Shy albatross
 
Cape pigeon

 
Godman print
Chatham petrel
Birds found on the Chatham Islands
(Birdlife includes):—
 
Little blue penguinEudyptula minor
Royal AlbatrossDiomedea epomophora
Grey–headed mollymawkDiomedea chrysostoma
Buller's AlbatrossDiomedea bulleri
Shy MollymawkDiomedea cauta
Yellow-nosed AlbatrossDiomedea melanophris
Northern Giant PetrelMacronecteus halli
Cape PigeonDaption capense australe
Mottled PetrelPterodroma inexpectata
Magenta PetrelPterodroma magentae
Soft-plumaged PetrelPterodroma mollis
Black-winged PetrelPterodroma nigripennis
Chatham Petrel Pterodroma axillaris
Broad-billed Prion Pachyptila vittata
Fairy PrionPachyptila turtur
Fulmar Prion Pachyptila crassirostris
Sooty Shearwater, Muttonbird Puffinus griseus
Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis
Grey-backed Storm PetrelOceanites nereis
White-faced Storm Petrel Pelagodroma marina
Southern Diving PetrelPelecanoides urinatrix
Australasian Gannet Morus serrator
Black Shag Phalacrocorax carbo
Chatham Island's Shag Leucocarbo onslowi
Pitt Island Shag Stictocarbo featherstoni
White-faced Heron  Ardea novaehollandiae
Reef Heron Egretta sacra
Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
Black Swan Cygnus atratus
Paradise Duck Tadorna variegate
Mallard Duck  Anas platyrhynchos
Grey Duck Anas superciliosa
New Zealand Shoveler  Anas rhynchotis
Australasian Harrier Circus approximans
California Quail Callipepla californica
Banded rail Rallus philippensis assimilis
Weka Gallirallus australis
Marsh Crake Porzana pusilla
Spotless Crake Porzana tabuensis
Pukeko Porphyrio porphyrio
South Island Pied Oystercatcher  Haematopus ostralegus
Chatham Island Oystercatcher  Haematopus chathamenis
Pied Stilt  Himantopus himantopus
Spur–winged Plover Vanellus miles
Banded dotterel Charadrius bicinctus
New Zealand Shore Plover Thinornis novaeseelandiae
Chatham Island Snipe Coenocorypha pusilla
Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit, Limosa lapponica
Turnstone Arenaria interpres
Red Knot Calidris canutus
Arctic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus
Southern Black Backed Gull Larus dominicanus
Red-billed Gull Larus scopulinus
White-fronted Tern Sterna striata
Chatham Island pigeon Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae
Kaka Nestor meridionalis
Red-crowned Kakariki Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae
Chatham Islands Parakeet, Cyanoramphus forbesi
Long-tailed cuckoo Eudynamys taitensis
Shining cuckoo  Chrysococcyx lucidas.
The cuckoos migrate from the Pacific Islands, arriving in New Zealand from around September and leaving again around March.
Skylark  Alauda arvensi
Welcome Swallow  Hirundo tahitica neoxena
New Zealand Pipit Anthus novaeseelandiae
Dunnock  Prunella modularis
Song Thrush  Turdus philomelus
Blackbird Turdus merula
Fantail  Rhipidura fulginosa
Tomtit  Petroica macrocephala
Robin  Petroica australis
Grey warbler  Gerygone igata
Bellbird  Anthornis melanura
Tui Prosthermadera novaeseelandiae
Chaffinch Fringilla coelabs
Red Poll Caruelis flammea
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Starling  Sturnus vulgaris
Silvereye  Zosterops lateralis
(page last updated  August 10, 2008)    
 
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