1. (noun) outlet, entrance (of a river, estuary, harbour, etc.).

1. (location) estuary and stream near Dunedin now known as the Kaikorai Valley.

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 18;)

1. (verb) to be eloquent, articulate, well-expressed.

1. (noun) river mouth, estuary, opening, doorway.

1. (verb) (-a,-ia) to wait, await - whanga is usually followed by ki.

1. (noun) river mouth, estuary.

1. (verb) to be open, leaving a passage.

1. (noun) New Zealand brill, Colistium guntheri - a greenish-brown fish with fine dark mottling in longitudinal lines on upper surface. Body broadly oval with projecting hook-like snout and very small eyes. An endemic fish found south of Cook Strait to Otago inhabiting sand and mud seabed in inshore waters, harbours and estuaries to depths of 100 m. Sometimes written as two words, i.e. pātiki nui.

1. (noun) banded dotterel, Charadrius bicinctus - a squat bird with a large head and robust bill distinguished from the New Zealand dotterel (tūturiwhatu) by two bands on the lower neck and breast. Endemic, found on beaches, river mouths and estuaries.

(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 98; Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 249;)

1. (verb) (-tia) to be experienced.

1. (noun) oval trough shell, harbour trough shell, Cyclomactra ovata - common bivalve shellfish with thin, white to yellowish-brown shell. Lives buried in soft mud of harbours and estuaries.

1. (noun) grey teal, Anas gracilis - a light grey-brown duck with pale grey cheeks, chin and foreneck, a blue-grey bill and red eyes, found in lowland lakes, lagoons and estuaries.

(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 154;)

1. (noun) New Zealand dotterel, Charadrius obscurus - a squat bird with a large head, robust bill and rusty orange chest in breeding birds. Found on beaches, river mouths and estuaries. This name is also sometimes used for the banded dotterel.

(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 98;)

1. (noun) glasswort, Sarcocornia quinqueflora - a native plant with inconspicuous leaves and short, fleshy, jointed stems, dull green in the shade and red-tipped in full sun. Found forming creeping mats on raised shell banks and muddy shingle in tidal estuaries, salt meadows and rock crevices throughout coastal Aotearoa/New Zealand.

1. (location) Blueskin Bay - a tidal estuary north of Dunedin.

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 18;)

1. (noun) wrybill, Anarhynchus frontalis - a pale-grey wading bird with a black bill, the tip of which is curved to the right. Breeds in the shingle riverbeds of Canterbury and Otago from August to January, migrating to estuaries of the North Island for the rest of the year.

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 9;)

1. (noun) black shag, great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandiae - largest shag, black with browner wings and tail and white patch on cheeks and throat. Facial skin yellow. Bill grey, eye green, feet black. Found on rivers, streams, lakes, estuaries, harbours and coastal waters.

1. (noun) New Zealand king shag, Leucocarbo carunculatus - a large, thick-necked, black-and-white marine shag with large pink feet, blue eye-rings and yellow caruncles on each side of the bill. The upperwings are black with a white patch or stripe near the leading edge and sometimes a white patch on the black upper back. Found only in the Marlborough Sounds.

1. (noun) spotted shag, Stictocarbo punctatus - a slender grey shag with a broad white stripe from above the eye down the sides of the neck, yellow feet and a long, slender, brown bill. Lives on the coast and estuaries.

(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 17; Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 136;)

1. (noun) cormorant, shag - a general term for several varieties of shags which are medium to large diving birds. They are all black or black on top and white below, with short legs and webbed feet, long necks, long hooked bills and mainly dark plumage. Commonly found near coastal waters, rivers, streams and lakes.