Kiwi Wildlife Tours NZ
Rock Wren (photo © Kiwi Wildlife Tours)
Kiwi Wildlife Tours NZ offers comprehensive bird-watching, nature & ecological tour and travel services for New Zealand and the South Pacific. We are New Zealanders and know our country, its birds, wildlife and landscapes intimately.
On our guided New Zealand tours we spend 21 days exploring New Zealand and some associated offshore islands. The many highlights include: Bay of Islands, a day and night on Tiritiri Matangi Island, a native bird sanctuary; spotlighting for kiwis on Stewart Island and four other locations elsewhere in New Zealand; penguins and tiny Hector's dolphins on the West Coast of the South Island; overnight on Milford Sound; and pelagic trips for the famous great albatrosses off Kaikoura, South Island; also special seabirds in Hauraki Gulf and off Stewart Island. Volcanoes, high mountains, glaciers, fiords, forests ranging from the sub-tropical kauri in the north to cool temperate podocarp/rata and southern beech forests in the south, tussock-lands, sweeping beaches and rugged coastlines, interspersed with pasturelands, sheep and introduced passerines. We begin in Auckland and at each place we go, the more spectacular the scenery becomes and the more havens for endangered species we encounter.
If you want to travel independently, you can either choose one of our set routes and itineraries, or we can tailor one especially to take account of your interests and tastes. We provide an up-to-date map service for key birding locations. And you don't have to be completely on your own. As an Auckland-based company we can help you ease into your New Zealand holiday with some guided birding in the north before you head out and explore the rest of the country on your own.
The ‘Treasured Islands’ theme for our South Pacific tours recognise the biodiversity riches of this region. The South Pacific is also home for us; so travel with those who know the region best. Ask for our tour itineraries to these wonderful places.
Kiwi Wildlife Tours NZ Ltd holds a comprehensive Department of Conservation (DOC) to operate commercial tours in national parks, reserves, forest parks and on island sanctuaries throughout New Zealand.
