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Kōrero: Wading birds

Black-fronted dotterel on nest

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Black-fronted dotterel on nest

Black-fronted dotterels have a black band through the eyes, and another from the bill up the forehead. A V-shaped black band runs from shoulder to shoulder and down the breast. They nest on raised stony banks in riverbeds. These small dotterels have been breeding in New Zealand only since the late 1950s.

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Department of Conservation

Reference: 10035296

by J. L. Kendrick

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Gerard Hutching, Wading birds – Dotterels, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/9171/black-fronted-dotterel-on-nest (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Gerard Hutching, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.