Best regional parks Bay of Plenty in New Zealand

"This reserve is a very cool place to hear the New Zealand flightless bird, the kiwi, calling two hours after sunset. Among the 325 hectares of regenerating native bush is the Whakatāne Birdwalk. Seventeen years ago the first kiwi were released back here and thanks to pest and predator controls many other native birds have now joined them to make up an bush and bird paradise. Whakatane call themselves the ‘kiwi capital of the world’."