Join your local tour guide, Ness, for a fantastic evening exploring the Tawharanui Bird Sanctuary, home to the New Zealand Kiwi!
Join your local tour guide, Ness, for a fantastic evening exploring the Tawharanui Bird Sanctuary, home to the New Zealand Kiwi!
This thriving sanctuary is located on a remote peninsula in the Hauraki Gulf and is the perfect habitat for Kiwi and other native NZ birds such as the Kereru, Tui, Native Owl, Morpork and more.
With native forest, lush pastures and wetlands, gorgeous coastal views and sandy beaches, it’s easy to see why the Kiwi call Tawharanui home.
Beginning at dusk, you’ll set off with your local guide in search of Kiwi by red torchlight. Keep an ear out for the shrill call of the Kiwi, it is very distinctive and almost mesmerizing. You will learn how to identify the difference between the male and female calls as well as other fascinating facts about these wonderful birds throughout the tour.
If you are lucky you may even get the chance to see these treasured nocturnal birds!
The small group numbers of the tour ensure you get the most out of your experience, making for a memorable and informative evening exploring the sanctuary and habitat of the New Zealand Kiwi!
Very special experience! Kind of like hiking but the first time at night that everything feels so different. There was about 20 minutes easy walkway before entering the forest. Three kiwi birds were found and many other lovely creatures. The tour guide lady was very experienced and nice. Great and strongly recommended!
Thank you so much for the fantastic tour last night. We all loved it. Anna said that you deserve a billion star review.
I booked this tour after receiving an Explore Tamaki Makaurau voucher. I'm so glad it was an option to book! Ness led a wonderful tour that was full of knowledge about the great Flora and Fauna or Aotearoa. We were able to see multiple kiwis and have an up-close experience with a Morepork! I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone looking to see some kiwis in their natural environment. Ness was a wonderful guide and I would be happy to experience another one of her tours sometime.
I'd heard great things about this experience and I was really impressed and loved it. Took my two daughters with me and we all had a wonderful time and got to see three kiwis. Was so amazing to see them in the wild and our tour guide was so phenomenal ❤️ Learnt alot and had fun
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jenniferw19 from Singapore wrote on 03 December 2022
Awesome Experience Up Close with Kiwis
Ness was a fabulous and sweet guide with an experienced knack for locating the wild kiwis. We were very blessed and managed to spot a pair of male and female kiwis together! Ness prepared yummy hot choc and gluten-free cookies too, as we sat in the middle of the forest with moonlight. It was a very special night walk and experience.