More links and websites
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Birds New Zealand
This website contains information on publications, meetings, activities and links to other sites.
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Miranda shorebird centre
The Miranda shorebird centre, on the Firth of Thames, is an important wader site. The website contains information about waders or shorebirds, including recent sightings, activities and courses.
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Miranda shorebird teaching resource
This Department of Conservation page links to a set of PDFs on waders, including their behaviour, habitat and feeding.
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New Zealand Birds Online
This website contains detailed information on all New Zealand bird species, including extinct and fossil species, searchable by name. It also contains a photographic key to guide bird identification.
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The black stilt
A 1983 film about the world's rarest wading bird, on the NZ On Screen website.
More suggestions and sources
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Heather, Barrie D., and Hugh A. Robertson. The field guide to the birds of New Zealand. Rev. ed. Auckland: Viking, 2000.
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Hutching, Gerard. Back from the brink. Auckland: Penguin, 2004.
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Miskelly, C. M. 'The identity of the hakawai.' Notornis 34 (1987): 95–116.
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Miskelly, C. M. 'Legal protection of New Zealand's indigenous terrestrial fauna – an historical review.' Tuhinga 25 (2014): 25–101. -
Miskelly, C. M., and A. J. Baker. 'Description of a new subspecies of Coenocorypha snipe from subantarctic Campbell Island, New Zealand.' Notornis 56 (2010): 113–123.
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Sibson, Richard. Birds at risk: rare and endangered species of New Zealand. Wellington: Reed, 1982.
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Wader studies in New Zealand. Notornis special issue, vol. 46, part 1, edited by Hugh Robertson. Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand, 1999.
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Woodley, Keith. Shorebirds of New Zealand: sharing the margins. Auckland: Penguin, 2012.