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Found at Mangawhai, this sand scraping – an apology for a nest – holds an egg of the fairy tern, the smallest and rarest of New Zealand’s terns. One or two eggs are laid between November and January, the summer holiday period, when people unwittingly disturb nesting birds and their chicks with dogs and vehicles.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: 10026321
by G. R. Parrish
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