Report a Sighting
Please report orca sightings with our toll-free number. If you don't have cellphone coverage, please fill out the form.
our toll-free number
If you see orca in New Zealand waters, please report it as SOON AS POSSIBLE! We rely on sightings from the public to find the orca – we may be out looking for them and your call could be the key to us being able to conduct our research. Each report adds information for our database and can help plot movements during a day, or over an individual’s lifetime.
Please do call us as we would rather receive 10 calls about the same sighting, than not hear about the orca at all. Many people believe that someone else has called – but often what happens is that we don’t hear about the orca until days later – and although that information is still helpful, the orca will have moved away from that area (NZ orca travel between 100-150 km a day).
You can download the NZ Orca Photo-Identification Guide to help you recognise the individual orca!
REPORT A SIGHTING via phone (0800 SEE ORCA), or use our online form (also button on the right) or via a pdf you can download, print and post to us (send to P.O. Box 402043, Tutukaka, 0153).