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Story: Bird migration

Birds that migrate within New Zealand

Common name Species
* Some migrate to Australia
South Island pied oystercatcher Haematopus finschi
Pied stilt Himantopus himantopus
Banded dotterel* Charadrius bicinctus
Wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis
Black-billed gull Larus bulleri

The species in this list migrate from their summer breeding areas to spend the rest of the year in another part of the country where food is abundant.

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Christina Troup, Bird migration – Migration within New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/7494/birds-that-migrate-within-new-zealand (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Christina Troup, published 2 March 2009.