Highlights from a three-part trip to New Zealand and Australia in January-February 2023:

- a nine-day birding tour of New Zealand with Phil Hammond of Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ, which included three pelagic birding trips - two out of Kaikoura on the South Island with Gary Melville of Albatross Encounter and one out of Marsden Cove on the North Island with Wrybill;

- a 14-day cruise from Auckland, New Zealand to Sydney, Australia with some incidental birding on several shore excursions in both countries, and considerable time scanning for seabirds from the ship when it was at sea;

- two days of birding in the Sydney area with Greg McLachlan of Bellbird Birding Tours.

Thanks to Phil, Greg and Gary for their excellent guiding and memorable birding.