Bird Watching on the Kaipara Harbour
Northern
Conservation Officer.
SARAH GIBBS.
aitakere Forest and Bird Wo. a trip to the Tapora coastal dunes on the Kaipara Harbour area to mark the return of godwits, knots and other migratory wading birds from the northern hemisphere. The trip was led by fairy-tern researcher Gwenda Pulham from the Ornithological Society of New Zealand. The trip followed a similar trip last spring, when a number of Auckland branches and other organisations combined for a field trip to Tapora led by a visiting specialist from the Netherlands, Dr Theunis Piersma.
Participants on both field trips were rewarded with sightings of international migratory birds, which visit the area each summer, and native coastal birds, which breed at Tapora. The area also contains rare native dune vegetation and spectacular scenery. The Tapora coastal dunes are within the area of the Kaipara Harbour that Forest and Bird is campaigning to have recognized as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 307, 1 February 2003, Page 39
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