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Kōrero: Wading birds

Wrybill feeding at a stream

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Wrybill feeding at a stream

This wrybill is at its summer breeding grounds in the Mackenzie Basin, feeding at the edge of a stony stream. Its diet during breeding includes aquatic insects and their eggs and larvae, and fish eggs, which it can reach from under stones with its bent bill.

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Department of Conservation

Reference: 10050047

by Aalbert Rebergen

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Gerard Hutching, Wading birds – Wrybills and shore plovers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/9174/wrybill-feeding-at-a-stream (accessed 4 June 2026).

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