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  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 45_H7C9328.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 06_H7C7937.jpg
  • NZ Dotterel nests are mere scrapings in the sand, placing their eggs and chicks at much vulnerability to storms, predation, off-road vehicles, and careless feet.  As depicted in this image, the nest is commonly among shells and driftwood just above the high tide mark, with two to three eggs simply laid in a scrape in the sand.
    New Zealand Dotterel 20_H7C7807.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 13_5209.jpg
  • The New Zealand Dotterel is an endangered species.
    New Zealand Dotterel 55_2998.jpg
  • The New Zealand Dotterel is an endangered species.
    New Zealand Dotterel 53_2983.jpg
  • Usually pale-grey on the back, with off-white underparts, the chest of the New Zealand Dotterel becomes flushed with rusty-orange in winter and spring.  In this picture, a NZ Dotterel poses nicely against a pleasant tussock backdrop at Waiheke Island.
    New Zealand Dotterel 27_H7C9479.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 35_H7C9412.jpg
  • With only a population of 1700, the Northern NZ Dotterel can be found within the Auckland and Northland regions, NZ dotterels nest on beaches including Mangawhai, Waipu, Te Arai Stream, Poutawa Stream, Pakari River mouth, Omaha Spit, Tawharanui, Papakanui Spit, Beehive Island, Waiwera, Gulf Harbour, the Wade River mouth, Tapora, and beaches south of Auckland city and on Waiheke and Great Barrier islands.
    New Zealand Dotterel 31_H7C9408.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 28_H7C9403.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 30_H7C9399.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 41_H7C9367.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 25_H7C9343.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 39_H7C9289.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 47_H7C9172.jpg
  • A pair of New Zealand Dotterels enjoy the beach at Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 15_H7C9001.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 09_H7C8874.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 08_H7C8859.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 23_H7C7933.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 16_H7C7709.jpg
  • The distinctive 'chip-chip' call of the New Zealand Dotterel is often heard before it is seen.
    New Zealand Dotterel 14_H7C7682.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 12_H7C7665.jpg
  • Snowy Plover, Southern California, North America
    Snowy Plover 01_H7C3715.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, Waituna Wetlands, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 20_5414.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, Waituna Wetlands, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 19_5406.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 17_4919.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel
    New Zealand Dotterel 04_4820.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel
    New Zealand Dotterel 02_4795.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 14_5236.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 12_5207.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 11_5057.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 10_4910.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 08_4759.jpg
  • The New Zealand Dotterel is an endangered species.
    New Zealand Dotterel 54_3001.jpg
  • An endangered New Zealand Dotterel taking a bath and dipping its head into fresh water.
    New Zealand Dotterel 05_H7C0385.jpg
  • Endangered New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    Endangered New Zealand Dotterel 43_H...jpg
  • Endemic New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    Endemic New Zealand Dotterel 38_H7C9...jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 32_H7C9360.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 36_H7C9327.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 33_H7C9308.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 37_H7C9277.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 34_H7C9254.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 29_H7C9171.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 24_H7C9212.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 42_H7C9155.jpg
  • Two different subspecies of the New Zealand Dotterel exist.  In this image is a Northern NZ Dotterel.  The Southern NZ Dotterel only has a population of about 250 birds, surviving on Stewart Island and nesting on mountain tops.
    Northern New Zealand Dotterel 40_H7C...jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 11_H7C8891.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel are one NZ's rarest birds, due to their love of coastal habitat, which in summer happens to be the favorite playground of people.
    New Zealand Dotterel 07_H7C8837.jpg
  • If the eggs of the New Zealand Dotterel are lost to predators, or to natural factors such as storms or big tides, the birds will re-nest up to four times in one season.
    New Zealand Dotterel 22_H7C7894.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 21_H7C7869.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 18_H7C7750.jpg
  • Snowy Plover, Southern California, North America
    Snowy Plover 02_H7C3716.jpg
  • Pied Stilt Panoramic (12x48-inch)
    Pied Stilt Panoramic (12x48-inch).jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel taking a sip of water along the Miranda estuary at the Firth of Thames.
    New Zealand Dotterel 03_4819.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 16_5295.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 15_5238.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 09_4771.jpg
  • Seven Bar-tailed Godwits prepare for their northward trans-equatorial migration to escape wintering in New Zealand.  <br />
Located at the southern end of the East Asian Australasian Flyway (EAAF), Awarua Bay is an important feeding ground for Austral summers.  In Austral autumn and winter, they head to their breeding grounds in Alaska.
    Bar-Tailed Godwits_62A6328.jpg
  • Yellow legs, a thin slightly curved bill, and a smudgy brown breast are distinctive features of the Least Sandpiper, while the larger Western Sandpiper is larger and possess a stouter bill and black legs.  Nonbreeding Western Sandpipers also have a whiter breast than the brownish breast on Least Sandpipers
    Least Sandpiper and Western Sandpipe...jpg
  • The New Zealand Dotterel is an endangered species.
    New Zealand Dotterel 52_3004.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 26_H7C9375.jpg
  • Feeding on a crab along the coast of Waiheke Island, the New Zealand Dotterel scurries off to enjoy its fresh meal.
    New Zealand Dotterel 44_H7C9077.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 19_H7C9034.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 17_H7C9023.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    New Zealand Dotterel 13_H7C8905.jpg
  • NZ Dotterel, Waiheke Island
    NZ Dotterel 10_H7C7658.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, Waituna Wetlands, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 18_5401.jpg
  • New Zealand Dotterel
    New Zealand Dotterel 01_4791.jpg
  • Pied Stilt, New Zealand
    Pied Stilt 07_4688.jpg
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