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Kōrero: Bird migration

Wrybill feeding

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Wrybill feeding

After breeding, wrybills move to muddy coastal feeding grounds. Around 2,000 birds winter at the Firth of Thames, 1,200 at Manukau Harbour, and smaller numbers at other North Island estuaries. When feeding, they slice through the wet mud with their bill to find small crustaceans.

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by Brent Stephenson

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Christina Troup, Bird migration – Migration within New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/7230/wrybill-feeding (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Christina Troup, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.