Bottle Lake Forest Park

Wildlife

The bird species present in an area depends on the type and diversity of habitats. As Bottle Lake is a working forest, this changes over time as the forest matures. Different areas at different stages of forest production will provide different habitats.

Plant life

Bottle Lake Forest consists mainly of Pinus Radiata. It is also host to an array of native and exotic understory plants. Throughout the plantation is a carpet of indigenous moss, lichens, and common ferns such as bracken, pigfern, chain fern and occasional water fern.

The coastal strip bordering Bottle Lake Forest is largely dominated by marram grass and tree lupin, with remnants of some windblown stands of Pinus Radiata, some macrocarpa and exotic ice plant which is now used to assist in dune stabilisation.