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High: 13 Low: 1 New Zealand enjoys many unique and native birds inhabiting both coastal and inland areas. Go bird watching and see birds in their natural and native habitats or visit a bird sanctuary. more
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The most comprehensive nature tour of the Otago Peninsula. Enjoy a scenic tour that includes the royal albatross, fur seals, sea-lions, waders, waterfowl and the rare yellow-eyed penguin. We also visit Larnach Castle and introduce you to New Zealand's temperate rainforest. Our experienced guides will take you on a breathtaking wildlife journey back to nature...(more)
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To see the Royal Albatross flying at speeds up to 120kph is an exhilarating sight, which you can experience for yourself by taking a guided tour of the Royal Albatross Colony. Learn more about these majestic birds or the history of Taiaroa Heads at the Royal Albatross Centre, or enjoy a coffee and tasty treat from our Albatross Cafe...(more)
Phone | Address | MapKaikoura has the greatest number of different seabirds in a small area. View these birds in their natural environment. Birds include albatross, petrels, shearwaters, terns, shags and gulls. Experience the sensation of getting close to the mighty albatross, one of the world's largest flight birds...(more)
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The most comprehensive nature tour of the Otago Peninsula. Enjoy a scenic tour that includes the royal albatross, fur seals, sea-lions, waders, waterfowl and the rare yellow-eyed penguin. We also visit Larnach Castle and introduce you to New Zealand's temperate rainforest. Our experienced guides will take you on a breathtaking wildlife journey back to nature...(more)
Phone | Address | MapOur friendly team tailor the day to suit you; air-fills, equipment and retail sales, full equipment hire, professional crews and 364-day-a-year operations, PADI training for all levels. Purpose-built dive-boats take you to a site matching your ability, we help you enjoy your dives. With dramatic landscape, passionate people and stories that entwine the two, Dive! Tutukaka delivers a total experience...(more)
Phone | Address | MapDriftwood Eco-tours is a boutique company based near Blenheim. Owner and guide Will Parsons encourages small groups and each tour is personalised to the client. Access to private land – you have the place to yourself. Driftwood Eco-tours also offers river valley walks, high country mountain tours and lagoon kayak trips. id#21d06c12..(more)
Phone | AddressJust Listed Eastwoodhill Arboretum, the National Arboretum of New Zealand, encompasses 135 hectares of exotic and native trees, shrubs and climber plantings. Visitor services include walking trails for all levels of fitness, the nationally significant Homestead Garden, accommodation, guided tours, function venue and catering services. Eastwoodhill Arboretum is a top visitor destination in Gisborne and attracts over 8,000 visitors annually...(more)
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New Zealand's best wildlife tour—visit one of the world's few untouched areas with its amazing wildlife and spectacular scenery. Our 'Peninsula Encounter' is absolutely unrivalled offering close exciting, small group viewing of royal albatross, hookers sealions, blue penguins, New Zealand fur seals and yellow eyed penguins in a beautiful isolated area. New Zealand Tourism Award winner in four categories...(more)
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New Zealand's hiking and outdoor adventure specialist! Recognised by New Zealand Tourism and presented the Distinction Award for winning awards in three consecutive years. Visit our Web site for a comprehensive selection of guided hikes and adventures. Hikes include: Abel Tasman, Queen Charlotte Track, Stewart Island and Hollyford Track. Adventures include: Ski Touring, Sailing, Whanganui River Canoe and Antarctic Expeditions...(more)
Phone | Address | MapKapiti Island—one of New Zealand's premier rodent free conservation treasures. A unique opportunity to observe an abundance of native birds, many of which are extremely scarce on the mainland. You have the option of easy and relaxed bush walks or a three hour round trip to the trig station (521 metres above sea level) and expansive views...(more)
Phone | Address | MapLike New Zealand itself, Queenstown’s Kiwi Birdlife Park has something for everyone, nature, wildlife, native forest and birdlife and real conservation in action. It is a unique and popular visitor attraction in the middle of the busy resort. The Kiwi Birdlife Park will entertain and educate both young and old. All visitors are guaranteed to view a kiwi. id#31g12e13..(more)
Phone | Address | MapLearn more about kiwi conservation, visit Kiwi Encounter. Operated by National Kiwi Trust and located on-site at Rainbow Springs, this unique scientific attraction allows an insight into the entire process of kiwi conservation—egg collection, incubation, hatching, and raising the kiwi until ready to release back into the wild. Includes guided tour departing hourly, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm daily...(more)
Phone | Address | MapVisit us in the Nocturnal House during the day or in the evening with Kiwi Watch. Every visitor guaranteed of seeing a kiwi during our guided tour of the Kiwi House. Tour included in admission price. The most valuable wildlife experience you'll have...(more)
Phone | Address | MapSail with us into the Cook Strait in the safety and comfort of an 11-metre ocean going yacht. Enjoy the stunning views across to the Marlborough Sounds and snow capped Kaikoura mountain range and north to Kapiti Island. Picnic on the grassy foreshore of Mana Island among the rare native birds and wildlife. Only 30 minutes from Wellington central city...(more)
Phone | Address | MapWe combine expert guided wildlife tours with boutique accommodation at Nisbet Cottage. Our nature-based package includes two nights' B&B, picnic lunch, Sunrise Penguin Walk, and Peninsula Excursion & Albatross Encounter with an opportunity for active participation in a re-forestation project. Flexible and personalised to suit your special interests. Maximum four to six people...(more)
Phone | Address | MapNature Quest offers the most definitive selection of nature and birdwatching holidays and natural history study programmes in New Zealand. Each is carefully handcrafted with the exact requirements of the individual, group or company in mind. Proud to be one of the benchmark environmentally sensitive operators by which others set their standards...(more)
Phone | Address | MapBeautifully maintained wildlife park where you can experience the best of native New Zealand. Interact with New Zealand's wildlife, native birds, trout and farm animals. Freshwater spring and Treetops Walk. Lion Feeding 2:30 pm every day...(more)
Phone | Address | Map | More Photos | $ PricingPohatu is the largest little penguin colony on mainland New Zealand. 4WD safaris enable you to visit this remote and beautiful area, meet the local experts and learn of conservation and day-to-day life of white-flippered penguins within the large Pohatu Colony. Sea kayaking safaris give great wildlife viewing opportunities and allow the adventurous to explore New Zealand's spectacular coastline...(more)
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New Zealand's National Wildlife Centre for captive breeding of our threatened wildlife, conservation education and forest restoration. Demonstrating that everyone can make a difference in restoring kiwi, kokako, kaka and other native wildlife once present in our forest and returning the dawn chorus for everyone to enjoy...(more)
Phone | Address | MapWairata is a vast remote mountainous wilderness within easy reach of Rotorua. Few places can match the unique natural setting, the 5000 acre farm is adjacent to the Urewera National Park, one of the largest untouched stretches of native forest left in the North Island of our beautiful country New Zealand...(more)
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Visit New Zealand's only White Heron (Kotuku) nesting colony. The beautiful White Heron breeds only in a single secret location in what is one of the most romantic parts of the country—in the Waitangiroto nature reserve—part of the South Westland World Heritage area. Rainforest nature tours and scenic jetboating all year round...(more)
Phone | Address | MapJust 15 minutes from Christchurch 'close encounters of the wildlife kind'. Embark on a journey through the history of New Zealand. See the impact of introduced species in 'Wild NZ' – meet old livestock breeds in 'Heritage NZ'. Open daily 9:30am – 10:00pm (Guided Tours only after dusk). Experience native wildlife in 'Natural NZ' Kiwis can be viewed up...(more)
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Where else in the world can you jump on the back of a trailer and get towed along the beach by a 1949 Minneapolis-Moline tractor to a bird colony? Come and join us - our unique and fun tour will take you to the largest mainland gannet colony in the world at Cape Kidnappers!..(more)
Just Listed New Zealand's ultimate eco-sanctuary experience. Just 10 minutes from central Wellington, New Zealand's natural history and conservation movement come to life with a state-of-the-art indoor exhibition. Then step through our pest-proof fence into our 225ha eco-sanctuary to see some of New Zealand's rarest birds, reptiles and insects in the wild. Open daily from 10:00 am...(more)
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