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Banded Dotterels (tuturiwhatu), G7, 100-400

Started Oct 17, 2019 | Photos thread
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Re: Banded Dotterels (tuturiwhatu), G7, 100-400

richj20 wrote:

A beautiful bird, for sure. What a treat to be able to photograph them.

I appreciate being so lucky, and able to live where I do.

I've read that ths bird is classified as "nationally vulnerable." Hopefully, efforts to protect them will succeed.

I'm pessimistic about that, people think their cat or dog would never go and kill wildlife. Most people don't even know or care they have dotterels nesting right outside their front doors - one neighbour asked me which tree they were nesting in...

Just curious: your photographs show ID bands on the legs. Is this area part of a preserve?

Not really, the areas are generally in a Regional Park, but not especially protected. All the monitoring and banding is done by local volunteers.

Nice work on getting the compositions.

- Richard

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