Tiri Tiri Mathanghi is simply a heavenly experience where one can site amdist the regenerating native bushland and enjoy only native birdsong. This island in Auckland Bay is home to many of New Zealands endangered native birds like Kokako, Stitchbird, Takahe and many of its less endangered birds too. You can sit on a bench along the boarded walks where drinking troughs are built into handrails and silently wait for the air to be filled with twitering tomtits and whiteheads, fantails and saddlebacks and delight in an experience unparalleled since St Francis acted as a magnet to all living things. If you are a birder then Tiri is one of the ten places you should visit before you die!

Written by  Bo Beolens.

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History of Tiritiri Matangi

This island was reclaimed farm land and has been entirely regenerated by volunteers, who planted almost 300,000 trees and exterminated all non-native predators to develop it into a conservation island for rare and threatened birds.

Tiritiri Matangi is now home to saddlebacks, the red crowned parakeet, stitch birds, several varieties of the flightless takahe and the little spotted kiwi, among many others.

Volunteer conservationists will take you over to the island and show you around on the purpose built tracks which lead visitors away from threatened areas.

Tiritiri Matanga was also the site of New Zealand’s first light house.

 

Review posted 23rd July 2007 by World Reviewer Staff.

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