Birds begin to arrive on the breeding grounds and set up territories in July later at high altitude. First eggs are laid in August to early November, in shallow scrapes in gravel, sand or soil, usually lined with tiny stones, occasionally shell. The clutch-size nearly always is three eggs, which are coloured grey to pale-green or olive with small dark spots. Incubation is performed by both adults for c.
Banded dotterels first breed at one year of age. Banded dotterels are solitary feeders both during the breeding season and non-breeding season. On the wintering grounds they often defend prime feeding areas on tidal flats and lagoon edges.
They often feed at night particularly at estuaries. Like most other harbour waders, banded dotterels will form roosting flocks of sometimes many hundreds of birds. Often the night-time high-tide roosts are in relatively inaccessible sites, e. Banded dotterels are primarily carnivorous, but also take berries of shrubs such as Muehlenbeckia and Coprosma. Animals eaten are varied and reflect local availability, e.
On the breeding grounds the diet is more varied and includes spiders, beetles, insect larvae, adults and subadults of many aquatic insects, e. Heather, B. The field guide to the birds of New Zealand. Penguin, Rosedale, Auckland. Marchant, S. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. Oxford University Press, Melbourne. Pierce, R. Regional patterns of migration in the banded dotterel Charadrius bicinctus. Notornis 46 : In Miskelly, C.
New Zealand Birds Online. Similar species: Lesser sand plover , New Zealand dotterel. A small compact brown and white plover with a short black bill, relatively long dark legs and large round dark eyes. Breeding males have a broad chestnut breast band with a narrow black neck band above it; females have both bands but they are duller.
Three males chasing and calling. Auckland Island banded dotterel males calling on the tops of the island. Song of Auckland Island subspecies. Auckland Island banded dotterel anxiety calls from several adults.
Anxiety calls from a pair of adults in riverbed. Flocks of the southern subspecies stay together throughout winter. New Zealand dotterel nest in open sites, typically low-lying sand or gravel banks and sandbars close to beaches and lagoons. Nests just above high tide mark are easily lost to strong storms and very high spring tides. Banded dotterels breed throughout New Zealand on sandy coasts, shingle and braided riverbeds, or sometimes farmland.
The New Zealand spur-winged plover population has a unique conservation trajectory among our native bird species. In just over 80 years since the first breeding record, it has gone from a fully protected native to having that protection removed in Importantly, pigeons can be hunted all year round, with no closed season, no limits, and no rules regulating how they can be hunted.
Fortunately many other birds can still be hunted over water with lead shot, and these can be hunted year round with no argument from bureaucrats. The Whanganui hill country is facing a population explosion of wild peacocks.
Brought to New Zealand as an ornamental species, they have flourished in the mild Whanganui climate and are now a serious economic and social pest in many areas.
Not only could you end up with angry birds pecking you, the lapwing couple are likely to abandon their eggs if moved. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Psychology What do Dotterels birds eat? Morphometrics and ecology of the New Zealand dotterel Charadrius obscurus , with a description of a new subspecies. Notornis 41 : New Zealand dotterel Charadrius obscurus recovery plan, Threatened Species Recovery Plan Department of Conservation, Wellington.
Habitat networks of indigenous shorebirds in New Zealand. Science for Conservation The impact of predation by introduced mammals on endemic shorebirds in New Zealand: a conservation perspective. Biological Conservation 99 : Marchant, S. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Pye, D. Nesting period of the northern New Zealand dotterel Charadrius obscurus aquilonius. Notornis 49 : Robertson, H. A; Baird, K. Conservation status of New Zealand birds, New Zealand Threat Classification Series Wellington, Department of Conservation. In Miskelly, C. New Zealand Birds Online. Similar species: Banded dotterel , Greater sand plover. A bulky plover with a heavy black bill, relatively long grey legs and large round dark eyes.
The upperparts are brown and the underparts off-white, becoming orange-red from May, with the depth and extent of red varying individually and seasonally, and males generally being darker than females. Contact calls then territorial calls from male birds house sparrows in background. Checklist of the birds of NZ. Bird distribution in NZ. This file is KB. Field guide to the birds of NZ.
This file is Birds of NZ - Locality guide. This file is 1. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds:. Volume 2. The discovery of NZ's birds. New Zealand dotterel Charadrius obscurus Gmelin, Order: Charadriiformes Family: Charadriidae.
New Zealand status: Endemic Conservation status: Recovering. Tony Whitehead New Zealand dotterel. Species Information Breeding and ecology The New Zealand dotterel is a familiar bird of sandy east coast beaches in the northern North Island, but is sparsely distributed around much of the rest of the country. Identification The New Zealand dotterel is a heavily-built plover, and is the largest species in the genus Charadrius c.
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