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Chatham Island pipit

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Chatham Island pipit

Three offshore island groups have their own subspecies of the New Zealand pipit. The Chatham Island subspecies is found on the main islands of the Chathams group – this bird is on the tiny Sisters islands, 20 kilometres north of the Chatham Island coast.

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Christina Troup, Birds of mountains and open country – New Zealand pipit, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/14019/chatham-island-pipit (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Christina Troup, published 1 March 2009.