SPRING 2025 : The Petrel Station pelagic seabird tours, Tutukaka, New Zealand

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We've scheduled a whopping 31 seabird tours for the spring 2025 season (September to December) which is the most we've ever run! You can check out the upcoming tours dates on our website.
www.thepetrelstation.nz

The Petrel Station is at its grandest during 'Spring' and it’s an outstanding time to come out to experience a wide diversity of New Zealand's stunning seabirds, and the huge seabird feeding workups of Fairy Prion and Buller's Shearwater that The Petrel Station seabird tours are famous for. In spring all the local breeding seabirds will be returning for the spring/summer breeding season (some in huge numbers), the albatross species are still around, it’s prime migration time for seabirds heading through on the way to their southern ocean breeding grounds, and we've also had plenty of other scarcer species put in an appearance at this time of year too (ie Chatham Albatross, Stejneger’s Petrel, Streaked Shearwater...). You can check out the 'Seabirds', 'Seasons' and 'Trip reports' sections of The Petrel Station website to see the impressive range of seabird species that have been recorded during this season.

For the 2025 season we've got plenty of double headers and triple headers running where we head out each morning for 2 or 3 days in a row, and with each day tending to be different based on what the conditions are doing it always makes it exciting to see what turns up.

We also still have a very small amount of spaces available for the Spring 2024 tours which are currently underway (with some outstanding spring tours so far this season) if you don't want to wait until next year :).

So if you're wanting to come out with us for some spring season seabird action then check out the upcoming tours dates on our website and get in touch soon to avoid missing out. It’s always a great day out, and the best way to experience these stunning seabirds is out on the ocean, in their world :)

The tours are based offshore from Tutukaka, in Northland, New Zealand.

Cheers Scott Brooks
The Petrel Station seabird tours and research - Tutukaka, New Zealand
021 322 324 -- www.thepetrelstation.nz -- seabirds@thepetrelstation.nz -- www.facebook.com/thepetrelstation