Discover Kōtuku, birdlife, conservation, nature and updates from White Heron Sanctuary Tours and the Waitangiroto Nature Reserve near Whataroa, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand.
Early nesting season at New Zealand's sole Kōtuku (White Heron) breeding ground in the enchanting Waitangiroto Nature Reserve, West Coast, South island, New Zealand. The location of New Zealand's only Kōtuku (White Heron) breeding colony remained largely unknown to Europeans until the mid-19th century. Following an expedition along the Waitangiroto River on 30 December 1865, a young surveyor Gerhard Mueller wrote the earliest known European record of the colony in a letter to
