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- Alien treasure hunt
- Alien treasure hunt (24 Jan)
- All about birds workshop for kids
- Aroha Kauri Day
- Art Group Exhibition 2018
- Artist talk - 7 Feb (1)
- Astronomically fun drop-in activities
- Astronomically fun drop-in activities (9 Feb)
- Autumn Art and Leaf Investigation Trail: 17 April
- Autumn Art and Leaf Investigation Trail: 24 April
- Bird walk and crafts
- Bird walk in the garden
- Book Sale
- Celebrate the closing of Sculpture in the Gardens
- Clivia Show
- Conservation Week 2018
- Conservation week display
- Cosmic plant game
- Create your own forest watercolour artwork
- Create your own sprout creatures
- Create your own wall hangings
- Creative arts exhibition
- Design your own treehouse (drawing)
- Discovery station for kids
- Do veges grown in compost taste best?
- Drop in session: Clay snails
- Edible Plant Part Game
- Edible Plant Part Game
- Edible Plant Part Game
- Edible Plant Part Game
- Edible Plant Part Game
- Edible Plant Part Game
- Egg box gardens
- Evening stargazing: Our place in the stars
- Evening stargazing: Our place in the stars (19 Jan)
- Evening stargazing: Our place in the stars (22 Jan)
- Evening stargazing: Our place in the stars (25 Jan)
- Fishing game
- Forest leaf creatures
- Gardeners of the galaxy
- Gardening in small spaces
- Girl Buoys creations
- Grow Your Own Space Microgreens
- Grow Your Own Space Microgreens (23 Jan)
- Hands on Creatures
- Herb hanging basket demonstration
- In Quarantine
- July school holiday programme
- Kauri dieback talk
- Kids Activities Day - Gardeners of the galaxy
- Kids nature journaling
- Learn how to create a begonia hanging basket
- Little Sprouts (December)
- Little Sprouts (January)
- Little Sprouts (March)
- Little Sprouts (May)
- Little Sprouts (Waitangi Day)
- Live Music on Waitangi Day: Bruce French
- Live music: Bruce French on Auckland Anniversary Day
- Live music: Bruce French on Boxing Day
- Live Music: Bruce French 2017
- Live music: Bruce French on Labour Day
- Live music: Wilde Taylor
- Live music: Wilde Taylor (Sun 20 Jan)
- See our beautiful living roofs
- Living roof workshop for kids
- Gardens in the Sky. Learn about living roofs in our new visitor centre display!
- Make a flying seed & bee hummer
- Make a fun leaf box
- Make your own collage
- Meet the Big Five: African Garden walk
- Mightly Kauri perspective drawing
- Nature bug cards
- Nature walk treasure hunt
- Nature weaving
- Nature-craft Easter cards
- Display and sale of orchids. Free entry
- Display and sale of orchids. Free entry
- Display and sale of orchids. Free entry
- Our star the Sun: holiday activity for kids age 12+
- Paper pet snails
- Perennial plant sale
- Photography Exhibition
- Photography workshop
- Photography workshop with Xavier Radic
- Pollination Puzzle
- Printmaking for adults
- Printmaking for kids
- Rocket gardens
- Rongoā rakau – Traditional Medicinal Plant Game
- Rongoā rakau: Traditional Medicinal Plant Game
- Rosehill School Sculpture Exhibition
- Salvias for Summer
- Sculpture in the Gardens returns for summer!
- Seed Sowing for Summer
- Learn about soil health
- Spin a spooky spiderweb!
- Plan your spring garden
- Springtime discovery station for kids
- Stippling art for adults
- Stippling art for adults 28 Jan
- Sunday at the Gardens 10 Jan
- Sunday at the Gardens 13 Dec
- Sunday at the Gardens 14 Feb
- Sunday at the Gardens 17 Jan
- Sunday at the Gardens 21 Feb
- Sunday at the Gardens 24 Jan
- Sunday at the Gardens 27 Dec
- Sunday at the Gardens 28 Feb
- Sunday at the Gardens 3 Jan
- Sunday at the Gardens 31 Jan
- Sunday at the Gardens 6 Dec
- Buy plants for your garden
- Terrific trees (10 July)
- Terrific trees (17 July)
- test
- The Great Kererū Count
- The Secret Life of Flowers
- Japanese tea ceremony Toggle menu
- Tips on garden maintenance
- Toyota Kiwi Guardians celebration
- Venus fly traps
- Wednesday Walk: Spring garden walk
- Wednesday Walks. Free.
- Wednesday Walks. Free.
- Weed busting 101
- Wild Winds discovery station for kids
- Yarn sticks

The Great Kererū Count
Submit your sightings online
The Great Kererū Count
If you love birds, you'll love The Great Kererū Count! Whether you see kererū in your home garden or here at the Auckland Botanic Gardens, remember to enter this information online.
Do your bit and learn how to take part here!
The Great Kererū Count is NZ’s biggest citizen science project to help gather information on the abundance and distribution of the New Zealand pigeon — also known as kererū, kūkū or kūkupa.
The humble kererū is one of New Zealand’s most valuable assets when it comes to our native forests. Long before humans came to this country, kererū have been undertaking the largest plant restoration project the country has ever seen. Kererū are the only bird left in New Zealand that are able to swallow and disperse the seeds from our largest native trees such as tawa, taraire, pūriri and matai. Kererū can live for 21+ years and are essential for native bush regeneration. Their disappearance would be a disaster for our native forests.