Otago Harbour Survey
Below is an example of the recording sheet for the harbour survey. The start and finish times for each section are recorded together with the species and number. On this particular morning, there was a very high tide so, many places were under water where the birds usually gathered.
| OTAGO REGION: OSNZ | |||
| OTAGO HARBOUR SURVEY 2009/2010 | |||
| Date 20/06/10 | Section 5b | ||
| Start time 8.25 | Finish time 8.35 | ||
| Observer/recorder Sue Odlin | |||
| Species | Tally | Total | |
| Red-billed gull | 27 | ||
| Section 5c | |||
| Start time 8.35 | Finish time 9.15 | ||
| Black-back gull | 12 | ||
| Chatham island shag | 3 | ||
| Kingfisher | 1 | ||
| Little shag | 30 | ||
| Mallard | 38 | ||
| Paradise duck | 1 | ||
| Pied oystercatcher | 1 | ||
| Red-billed gull | 13 | ||
| Section 5d | |||
| Start time 9.15 | Finish time 9.35 | ||
| Black-back gull | 7 | ||
| Little shag | 38 | ||
| Mallard | 12 | ||
| Paradise duck | 2 | ||
| Section 7a | |||
| Start time 9.35 | Finish time 9.50 | ||
| Black swan | 2 | ||
| Harrier hawk | 1 | ||
| Little shag | 13 | ||
| Mallard | 2 | ||
| Paradise duck | 33 | ||
| Red-billed gull | 2 | ||
| Spur-winged plover | 10 | ||
| Variable oystercatcher | 3 | ||
| Section 7b | |||
| Start time 9.50 | Finish time 10.29 | ||
| Bar-tailed godwit | 10 | ||
| Black-back gull | 5 | ||
| Black-fronted tern | 1 | ||
| Black swan | 29 | ||
| Grey teal | 33 | ||
| Kingfisher | 11 | ||
| Paradise duck | 29 | ||
| Pied oystercatcher | 25 | ||
| Variable oystercatcher | 5 | ||
Below is an example of the monthly data collection for the harbour.
APRIL 2010
Sunday 14 April 2010 start time 13.41pm
| Section | ||||||||
| Species | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| Bellbird | 1 | |||||||
| Black fronted tern | 375 | |||||||
| Black shag | 15 | 1 | ||||||
| Black swan | 192 | 33 | ||||||
| Caspian tern | 14 | |||||||
| E bar-tailed godwit | 129 | |||||||
| Feral goose | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| Goldfinch | 2 | |||||||
| Grey teal | 189 | |||||||
| Grey warbler | 1 | |||||||
| Harrier | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Little shag | 24 | 87 | 78 | 97 | 143 | 20 | 13 | |
| Mallard | 76 | 55 | 68 | 196 | 58 | |||
| Paradise shelduck | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Pied oystercatcher | 23 | 14 | 685 | 89 | 292 | |||
| Pied stilt | 25 | 8 | ||||||
| Red-billed gull | 102 | 49 | 27 | 14 | 56 | 57 | 208 | |
| Royal spoonbill | 3 | |||||||
| S black backed gull | 135 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 111 | 7 | 113 | |
| Spotted shag | 3 | 16 | 3 | 125 | 2 | |||
| Spur winged plover | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Stewart island shag | 3 | 9 | ||||||
| Var. oystercatcher | 2 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 42 | 6 | ||
| White faced heron | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | |||
| White-fronted tern | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 236 |
Rather than present more tables of figures from the monthly surveys, I’ve decided to show the numbers counted for six species in section seven. The data is from 2010.
