Checklist of New Zealand Birds

For my own records, here is the list of birds we identified in New Zealand (South Island).

1. Brown Kiwi*

2.  California quail

3. Black Swan
4. Canada goose
5. Paradise shelduck*
6. Grey Teal
7. New Zealand scaup*
8. Mallard
9. Grey duck (or hybrid with mallard)
10. Australasian shoveler*
11. Australasian crested grebe (seen in europe?)
12. Little (blue) penguin*
13. Southern royal albatross
14. Northern Royal  Albatross
15. Wandering albatross*
16. White-capped albatross*
17. Salvin's albatross
18. Northern giant petrel*
19. Cape petrel
20. White-chinned petrel
21. Sooty shearwater
22. Australasian gannet*
23. Pied shag
24. Little shag
25. Otago/Foveaux Shag*
26. Great egret (white heron)
27. White-faced heron
28. Royal spoonbill
29. Swamp harrier*
30. New Zealand falcon*
31. Weka*
32. Pukeko
33. Eurasian coot
34. South Island pied oystercatcher*
35. Variable oystercatcher*
36. Masked lapwing
37. Pied stilt
38. Banded dotterel*
39. Bar-tailed godwit
40. Kelp gull
41. Silver gull
42. Black-billed gull*
43. New Zealand pigeon*
44. Kea*
45. Kaka*
46. Yellow-crowned parakeet*
47. Sacred kingfisher
48. Morepork* (heard only)
49. Welcome swallow
50. Rifleman*
51. Silvereye
52. Grey gerigone*
53. South Island saddleback*
54. Tui*
55. New Zealand Bellbird*
56. New Zealand fantail*
57. Yellowhead*
58. Starling
59. Australian magpie
60. Tomtit*
61. South Island robin*
62. Blackbird
63. Song thrush
64. Dunnock
65. Skylark*
66. New Zealand pipit*
67. Redpoll
68. Greenwich
69. Yellowhammer
70. Takahe* - tame
71. Rock pigeon
72 Barbary dove* (African collared)
73. White-fronted tern*
74. Westland petrel*
75. Caspian Tern


75 species identified
*37 lifers