Tour Reports
Check out what’s been seen at The Petrel Station on past seabird tours.
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23 Aug 2023
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
A great winter’s day out on the ocean with loads of stunning seabirds.
6 Aug 2023
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
A great winter’s tour with 4 Grey-backed Storm Petrels, a whale and large Fairy Prion feeding workups.
17 Jul 2023
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
A great winter’s day out with the seabirds, inc a Brown Skua.
19 Jun 2023
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
World Albatross Day trip, a Soft-plumaged Petrel and 15,000+ Fairy Prion.
25 May 2023
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
Soft-plumaged Petrel, 4 Antarctic Prion, 3 Brown Skua, 6,000 Diving Petrels - stunner of a day out.
25 Apr 2023
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
Westland Petrel - new seabird species for The Petrel Station!
18 Mar 2023
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
A stunning White-naped Petrel snuck in on the last summer pelagic seabird tour of year.
5-6 Mar 2023
THE PETREL STATION MULTI-DAY REPORT
Today was our 50th pelagic tour – to celebrate we had 2 great days of stunning seabirds
17 Feb 2023
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
Another great summer’s day out at The Petrel Station.
14 Jan 2023
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
9 Black-winged Petrels and over 100 NZ Storm Petrel! What day at The Petrel Station.
10 Dec 2022
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
Gould’s & White-naped Petrel, Chatham Alby, South Polar & Long-tailed Skua – Epic day!
17 Nov 2022
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
Amazing Day! Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Black-winged & Mottled Petrel, LT Skua
6 Nov 2022
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
8 Mottled Petrel, a Long-tailed Skua, and 70,000 seabirds seen on the day!
1 Nov 2022
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
Nearly 100,000 seabirds seen today! Inc Chatham Alby and South Polar Skua.
23 Oct 2022
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
2 Chatham Albatross, and huge Buller’s Shearwater workups
21 Aug 2022
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
Lot’s of Fairy Prions and a bunch of Whales on todays tour.
10 Jul 2022
THE PETREL STATION TOUR REPORT
Providence Petrel! New species for The Petrel Station