New Zealand

Bordered by the Tasman Sea on the west and the South Pacific on the east, New Zealand stretches almost 1,000 miles north to south. Eons of isolation have given the three main islands and a multitude of smaller islands a unique avifauna, with six endemic families, and more than 25% of the islands’ species are endemic breeders, many of them globally threatened. We’ll visit remarkable sanctuaries, breathtakingly scenic parks, search for landbirds in old-growth forests, and sail the coastal waters looking for New Zealand’s remarkable collection of seabirds and marine mammals.

If you would like to experience albatrosses so close you can count the droplets of water on their feathers, hear the deafening calls of New Zealand Bellbird ringing through the forest at dawn, witness a confiding New Zealand Robin standing guard on a forest path, or marvel at a nocturnal Kiwi snuffling through the leaf litter, come to New Zealand.