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Kōrero: Estuaries

Pārengarenga Harbour

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Pārengarenga Harbour

Pārengarenga Harbour is the northernmost estuary of New Zealand and one of the country’s major wading-bird habitats. At low tide, 5,700 hectares of intertidal sandflat and seagrass are exposed to the thousands of wading birds that congregate in the harbour to feed.

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GNS Science

Reference: CN9201/14

by Lloyd Homer

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Maggy Wassilieff, Estuaries – Larger animals of the estuary, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/4640/parengarenga-harbour (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.