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During 1977, 3,073 kilometres of coast were patrolled by 132 members of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand and their friends. 5,542 dead seabirds and 135 non-seabirds were found. There were no major wrecks. Small, sometimes local, wrecks of broad-billed prions (Pachyptila vittata), sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus), short-tailed shearwaters (P. tenuirostris) and fluttering shearwaters (P. gavia) are noted. Unusual finds were one each of: Antarctic petrel (Thalassoica antarctica), fulmar prion (Pachyptila crassirostris), black-bellied storm petrel (Fregetta tropica), grey ternlet (Procelsterna cerulea) and Pitt Island shag (Stictocarbo punctatus featherstoni) (a new record for beach patrolling).