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Wednesday 9:30am - 4pm Thursday 9:30am - 4pm Friday 9:30am - 4pm Saturday 9:30am - 5pm Sunday 9:30am - 5pm

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Immerse yourself in our tropical butterfly house or travel back in time in Dinosaur Kingdom. Meet Scar and Goldie, NZ’s only salt water crocodiles.
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We have Mythical Creatures, Kiwi, farm animals, monkeys alligators, a beautiful bird aviary & much more. Welcome… More than a zoo, there’s a surprise around every corner. Get up close with fabulous animals and entertaining attractions. Enter mythical lands where unicorns and dragons come alive. Travel back in time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Immerse yourself in our tropical butterfly house an

d feel the brush of fluttering butterflies. Let your eyes adjust and see magnificent Kiwi roam in Kiwi Forest. Connect with cute animals in Buttermilk Farm. See cheeky monkeys, meerkats and otters. Take a ride on the train, play in our free playground, then enjoy refreshments in our café. We also offer kids parties, functions and meetings, plus fun educational school and ECE’s visits. Explore the wonderland of Butterfly Creek and experience a day you’ll never forget.

12/11/2024

🦎 Iguana Close-Up! 🦎

Check out these incredible iguana claws and scales! 🐾 Iguanas’ scales aren’t just for looks – they play a key role in protection and survival.

🔹 Protection: Their scales act as a shield, protecting them from predators and harsh environments. They also help prevent water loss, allowing iguanas to thrive in dry places.

🔹 Temperature Regulation: Being cold-blooded, iguanas rely on their scales to absorb heat from the sun, keeping their bodies at the right temperature. 🌞

Nature really thought of everything! 🌿💚

11/11/2024

🐾 Guess the Animal! 🐾

Here's a close-up of one of our adorable residents at Butterfly Creek! Can you guess who it is? 🤔

Comment below with your guess, and let’s see who can get it right! 👇

08/11/2024

We hope you are having a great weekend!
If you are looking for something to do this weekend, why not come and see us?
Butterfly Creek is open Saturday and Sunday 9.30am - 5pm

07/11/2024

🎄✨ Limited Christmas Function Spots Available at Butterfly Creek! ✨🎄

Don’t miss out on hosting your end-of-year function in an unforgettable setting! 🎉 Weekday spots are almost gone – so get in quick to secure a unique celebration surrounded by nature and amazing animals. 🌿🐒

Whether it’s for your team, friends, or family, Butterfly Creek is the perfect spot to wrap up the year with a wild twist! Book now to avoid disappointment. 🎅🎁

For more information visit 👉 https://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/christmasfunctions

05/11/2024

🎆 Happy Guy Fawkes from Butterfly Creek! 🎆

As we celebrate tonight, let’s remember our furry, feathered, and scaly friends. Fireworks can be stressful for animals, so please keep your pets and local wildlife in mind—bring them indoors, keep them calm, and ensure they feel safe and secure. If you’re setting off fireworks, please do so in a safe area away from wildlife habitats.

Have a fun and safe Guy Fawkes! 🐾🌌

01/11/2024

🎃👻 Have you got your tickets for our Halloween Weekend yet? 👻🎃

Check out all the spooky fun we have planned! It’s going to be a blast! 🎉
Get in quick and secure your tickets now—don’t miss out! 👉 butterflycreek.co.nz/buy

📅 Saturday, Nov 2nd & Sunday, Nov 3rd

30/10/2024

🎃 Happy Halloween from Butterfly Creek! 👻

We’re celebrating this weekend with loads of spooky fun! Make sure you dress up and join us for:
🎃 Giant Pumpkin Scavenger Hunt
🎨 Face Painting
🎁 Spot Prizes for the best costumes
🐾 Animal Encounters

We can’t wait to see your costumes! 👀✨
It's going to be a weekend of frightful fun—don’t miss out! 👻🎉

Book your tickets here:
https://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/buy

27/10/2024

🌞 Happy Labour Day! We’re Open Today! 🌞

Celebrate the long weekend with us—Butterfly Creek is open today from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM, and there’s no surcharge for public holidays! 🦋🎉

Join us for a fun-filled day of animal encounters, dino adventures, and more. Plus, we’re open again tomorrow (Tuesday) from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM!

Get your tickets onsite or buy online here:
https://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/buy

25/10/2024

🎃👻 Halloween Weekend at Butterfly Creek! 👻🎃
Get ready for some spooky fun on Saturday, Nov 2nd & Sunday, Nov 3rd!

We’ve got a Giant Pumpkin Scavenger Hunt, Halloween entertainment, and spot prizes for anyone who comes dressed up! 🎃🕸️
It’s going to be a weekend of thrills and chills for the whole family! 👻✨

Stay tuned for more details—mark your calendars and start planning those costumes! 🧙‍♀️👹

25/10/2024

🌟 We’re Open Labour Day & Tuesday! 🌟
Looking for something fun to do this long weekend? Butterfly Creek is open on Labour Day (Monday) from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM and Tuesday from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM!

Don’t miss out on our amazing animals, dinosaurs, and family fun. Book your tickets now to secure your spot! 🦋🦎🦕

👉 Get your tickets here:
https://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/buy

17/10/2024

🔍 Guess the Animal! 🔍
Can you tell who this scaly superstar is from just a close-up? 👀

Hint: This leafy-loving creature enjoys basking in the sun and showing off its striking colors! 🌿☀️

Drop your guesses in the comments below! ⬇️
We’ll reveal the answer soon—let’s see how many of you get it right! 😎

16/10/2024

🌿 Leading the Way in Wētāpunga Conservation! 🌿

Butterfly Creek proudly pioneered the Wētāpunga Breeding Programme, and we're thrilled to be making a huge impact in saving this iconic species. With the support of The Jenkins Foundation, we’ve successfully released over 1,400 juveniles into the wild this year alone. 🎉

Learn more about how we’re leading efforts to protect this endangered invertebrate. Read the full story here:
https://www.jenkinsfoundation.org.nz/blog/post/134586/butterfly-creeks-wetapunga-breeding-programme/ 🌱🐜

Butterfly Creek's wētāpunga recovery program: From 12 giant wētā in 2009 to successful reintroductions across New Zealand. Privately funded with support from The Jenkins Foundation, this initiative aims to save NZ's iconic invertebrate species.

13/10/2024

🌟 We're back to term hours! 🌟

The school holidays may be over, but the adventure at Butterfly Creek never stops! Our term hours are:
🦋 Monday & Tuesday: Closed
🦋 Wednesday, Thursday & Friday: 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
🦋 Saturday & Sunday: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Bring the family and explore our amazing animals, dinosaurs, and so much more! 🦖🦎🦋

13/10/2024

🦋 Reminder: We're Closed Tomorrow and Tuesday 🦋

As we head back into term time, just a quick reminder that Butterfly Creek will be closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

Thank You for a Great School Holidays. We’ve had an amazing time with all the families and friends who visited us over the school break! THANK YOU to everyone who made it special. 🙌💚🦋

11/10/2024

🎉 Last Chance for School Holiday Fun at Butterfly Creek! 🎉

It’s the final weekend, and we’ve got a dino-tastic lineup just for you! 🦖
Catch our walking dinosaur and dino puppets in action, and don’t forget about all the other exciting attractions waiting for you! 🦎🦋

Don’t miss out—book your tickets now:
https://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/buy

Please note: Walking dino subject to weather conditions.

10/10/2024

🎨 Face Painting Fun at Butterfly Creek! 🎨

Bring the kids along today for some extra fun! We’ve got face painting from 10 AM to 2 PM, so let their imaginations run wild with colorful designs. 🦋🦄

08/10/2024

🥝 Happy Save the Kiwi Week!! 🥝

To kick things off, we have a PSA for all dog & cat owners! 🐶🐱
Dogs & cats are part of the whānau, but they can harm our precious kiwi. Here’s how to help protect them:

For 🐶 Dog Owners:
🦴 Keep dogs on a lead and out of kiwi areas
🏡 Secure them at night
🏞️ Use dog-friendly parks
🚫 Obey signs & bylaws
🐕‍🦺 Get Kiwi Avoidance Training
📞 Report lost or roaming dogs in our wild spaces to the council or DOC if needed

For 🐱 Cat Owners:
🏠 Keep your cat indoors
🔔 Use a bell collar
🍗 Keep them fed & entertained
✂️ Spay or neuter your cat

Together, we can save our kiwi!

📷 Beautiful photo taken by Keeper Lawrence

06/10/2024

🥝 Did you know there are only around 68,000 kiwi left, and that number is dropping by 20 birds a week? Most New Zealanders haven’t even seen one!

But at Butterfly Creek, you can meet these incredible taonga up close! Come and experience the magic of seeing a kiwi in person and learn how we can help protect them.

Don’t miss your chance—visit us today!
butterflycreek.co.nz/buy

Address

10 Tom Pearce Drive
Auckland
2022

Opening Hours

Wednesday	9:30am - 4pm
Thursday	9:30am - 4pm
Friday	9:30am - 4pm
Saturday	9:30am - 5pm
Sunday	9:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+6492758880

Website

https://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/

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👻 Halloween Weekend Fun Awaits at Butterfly Creek! 🎃 Join us this Saturday and Sunday, 2nd & 3rd November, for spine-chilling Halloween-themed animal encounters! 🐍🕸️ Meet our creepiest critters up close in a day full of spooky surprises. ✨ Be in to win! ✨ Dress up in your best Halloween costume or complete our Giant Pumpkin Hunt for a chance to win some wickedly cool prizes! Bring the whole family and make it a Halloween to remember. Buy your tickets here: https://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/buy #ButterflyCreek #HalloweenFun #SpookyEncounters

🎉🐒 Happy 2nd Birthday to Pablo and Escobar, our mischievous Emperor Tamarin monkeys! 🎂 Our keepers made them a special birthday treat—check out the video to see their reaction! Drop a like or wish them a happy birthday in the comments! 🎈 #BirthdayMonkeys #PabloAndEscobar #ButterflyCreek

🐍🦎 Happy Reptile Awareness Day 2024! Today, we celebrate reptiles and their vital role in ecosystems around the world. 🌍 Reptile Awareness Day is all about raising awareness, supporting conservation, and learning more about these fascinating creatures. To mark the day, we’re sharing a special video of one of our bearded dragons hunting and eating locusts! 🦗 At Butterfly Creek, we sometimes provide live feedings for enrichment, encouraging them to display natural behaviors. They respond well to movement, which helps keep their minds sharp and their bodies active. Come visit us at Butterfly Creek to see these amazing reptiles up close! 🐢🐍 #ReptileAwarenessDay #BeardedDragon #ProtectReptiles #WildlifeConservation #ButterflyCreek

🦋 Join Us These School Holidays & Help Save Our Butterflies! 🦋 Will you make a pledge for butterfly conservation? Come in and add your own flower to our Conservation Garden and show your support for these beautiful creatures! 🌸 Our Butterfly Conservation Garden is located in the Boneyard Room alongside Arts and Crafts, running Tuesday to Thursday, 10 AM - 2 PM this week. Don’t miss out—bring the family and be part of something special! 👉 Book your tickets now: https://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/buy #SaveTheButterflies #ConservationGarden #ButterflyCreek #SchoolHolidayFun

🎉 Happy International Zookeeper Day! 🎉 To celebrate, our amazing keepers decided to pass the phone 📱! Get ready to meet the incredible team behind the magic at Butterfly Creek. 🐢👩‍🔬 From caring for reptiles to ensuring our butterflies thrive, each keeper has a special role in making our zoo a wonderful place for both animals and visitors. 🎥 Watch and enjoy getting to know them and the animals they love! 💚 #InternationalZookeeperDay #MeetOurKeepers #ButterflyCreekFamily #BehindTheScenes

🎂🎉 Happy 12th Birthday to Raf, our Cotton-Top Tamarin! 🎉🎂 Keeper Sarah made Raf a special cake using some of his favorite foods! 🌽🍎🍌🐒 Come visit Raf this weekend and wish him a happy birthday! 🎈🎁 Buy your tickets here: https://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/buy #HappyBirthdayRaf #CottonTopTamarin #ZooFun #ButterflyCreek #butterflycreeksnaps

🐐 HAPPY WORLD GOAT DAY!! 🐐 Nothing says World Goat Day like a banana palm feast! 🌟🐐🍃 Our goats are loving it! #WorldGoatDay #GoatTreats #Celebration #zoo #butterflycreeksnaps #butterflycreek

Happy 7th Birthday to our gorgeous meerkat Suki!! 🥳 Our keepers made Suki an egg-cellant bday treat, her favourite part is the yolk! ❤️🥚

🐒 Happy Cotton-Top Tamarin Day! 🐒 As omnivorous creatures, the Cotton-Top Tamarins will consume a wide variety of food from fruits, leaves and nectar to insects, spiders, and eggs. Sophia and Raf love a bit of corn on the cobb! 🌽 Did you know when Cotton-Top Tamarins are scared or excited, their voluminous plume of white fur becomes raised in a effort to make themselves look bigger and more impressive! Aren't these wild 'punk-rockers' amazing! 🤘🥰

Feeding time at the zoo!!! 🦎 Banjo and Inala are settling in to their new home nicely, have you come to see them yet?! 😍 Come in for the last week of the school holidays to meet our newest additions! Buy tickets online!

Its guinea pig appreciation day! August, Ivy and Willow had some outside sniff and play time so that we could appreciate how cute they are! Did you know guinea pigs like to chat to each other? They communicate with different sounds! They have a ‘wheek-wheek’ call which is a sign of excitement (or if they're looking for a friend), a low ‘purring’ sound, which they make when they are feeling content and, a series of short ‘putt-putt’ noises they make when exploring. Come in and appreciate these cuties - Book your tickets online!

Explore Butterfly Creek

Animal encounters are back everyone and we are beyond thrilled 😆 Come along to our free daily encounters to see our animals either being fed or, interacting with our keepers! To kick things off, we have a butterfly release at 10:00am, an otter feeding at 11:30am, our very popular Crocodile feeding at 1:00pm and loads more! Due to social distancing restrictions we cannot hold our tarantula, reptile or wētāpunga encounters but all others are safely able to operate 🎉 See you all this weekend 😉

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Our Story

Butterfly Creek is one of Auckland's most exciting and colourful attractions. There is an aquaria where you can spot Nemo and his friends, next comes the wonderful tropical butterfly house where approximately 800 butterflies surround you. Amongst them you can find birds & lizards. Butterfly Creek hosts two giant salt water crocodiles and three alligators. There is also a bugs exhibit where you can see tarantulas up close and insects such as locusts.

In 2019 we launched our latest exhibit, Mythic Creatures, where you’ll find Dragons, Unicorns, Serpents, Aliens, magical Mermaids, the mythical Kraken and many more amazing creatures. You can also see Kiwis, otters & eels in our amazing Kiwi Forest area that opened up in 2017.

Buttermilk Farm is very popular at Butterfly Creek as it is a great way for the children to interact with the farm animals - see the goat getting milked, pat a bunny rabbit and giggle at the pigs as they snooze. There is a little train that circles the complex and also a playground for the kids to play in, while adults can enjoy a coffee and lunch from the Papillon Cafe and Bar. Butterfly Creek is a great day out suitable for all months of the year as it is 75% under cover. And don’t forget to check out Dinosaur Kingdom - an exciting exhibit where you can explore all sized dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago. We cater for group visits such as holiday programmes, primary schools, seniors, pre-schools, kindergarten, play groups, seniors, coffee groups and families of course. We provide venue hire for corporate functions, conferences, birthday parties & more. We provide educational resources on butterflies, bugs and crocodiles when a group visits us. We also run a behind the scenes - Junior Keeper programme that allows the kids to learn about animals and how to care for them. Butterfly Creek is a great day out for everyone!