Ambury Regional Park

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Te Ara i Tautahi, Ambury Regional Park, is a working farm on the edge of the Manukau Harbour at Māngere Bridge, and the animals are the reason to bring children. Sheep, cattle, goats, pigs, chickens and peacocks are all in the paddocks, and cow milking runs daily through the middle of the year. Orphan lambs are hand fed from mid-July. The Family Farm Walk is about a kilometre, takes forty-five minutes at a child's pace and is flat enough for a pushchair. The foreshore is one of Auckland's best wading bird sites, with more than eighty species recorded and big flocks of godwits and oystercatchers through winter and spring. There are bird hides, picnic tables, toilets and a car park. Paddocks close to visitors during lambing in late July.