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Crushed dotterel chick

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Crushed dotterel chick

Nesting shore birds are vulnerable to vehicles driving along shores, dunes and riverbeds. This dotterel chick has been crushed by the wheel of a four-wheel-drive vehicle, a common fate for eggs and chicks in areas where vehicles encroach on their nesting grounds.

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Gerard Hutching, Wading birds – New Zealand’s wading birds, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/9145/crushed-dotterel-chick (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Gerard Hutching, published 2 March 2009.