Coastal birds you may see include

spotted shag, little shag, pied shag, blackbacked gull, redbilled gull, white-fronted tern, pied and black oystercatchers, albatross, mollymawks, petrels, gannets and caspian terns (these last two both catch their fish in spectacular plunges from mid-air into the sea.

Sooty Shearwater (Muttonbirds or Titi) conservation initiative.

Mark Armstrong of Stony Bay instigated an ambitious project to erect a predator proof enclosure around the few remaining Titi burrows on Banks Peninsula. This project has saved the remnant colony with an increase in breeding effort from this once abundant bird. The enclosure can be seen, high up on the edge of the cliff near the end of section two of the walk, between Flea Bay and Stony Bay.

Native birds

One of the best loved and most frequent visitors around the accommodations is the Kereru (woodpigeon, pictured right), and the many pairs of paradise ducks (left).

Other native birds you may see (and hear) include Bellbird, brown creeper, tomtit, rifleman, grey warbler, fantail (pictured right), silvereye (bottom right), morepork, pukeko (pictured left), shining cuckoo, kingfisher, grey duck, pipit, welcome swallow and spur-winged plover.