About New Zealand birds, for New Zealand birders

Welcome to BirdingNZ.net: built for sharing information on wild birds in NZ.

The discussion forum is free and easy to join, allowing anyone with an interest in NZ birds—resident scientists, international twitchers, and everyone in between—to find and share information. A key goal of the site is to allow people to quickly and easily distribute details about rare bird observations, so others may also have a chance to see something special. To help achieve this goal, registered members can easily subscribe to receive an email alert of posts made to the Bird Sightings and Alerts forum. These alerts are a light, plain text copy of the full posted message—easy to recieve over slow connections and mobile devices, and allowing users to quickly decide if it is something they would like to follow up.

This Franklin’s gull may be one of the most twitched birds in New Zealand, at times drawing crowds of two or more birders.
Photo by Neil Fitzgerald

The BirdingNZ.net forums are rapidly growing in popularity, and as the site grows, we hope to add more links to birding related web resources, and informative articles on some of New Zealand's special species and birding hot spots. Contributions of relevant material are welcome.

There have been some interesting birds seen recently; chestnut teal, glossy ibis, whiskered tern, and the second record of Franlkin's gull in New Zealand has created lots of excitement (and debate). We might be in for an interesting summer.

Feedback is more than welcome via the BirdingNZ.net forum, or the contact page.