Shore plover hatchings
THE CAPTIVE shore plover at the National Wildlife Centre at Mt Bruce (see last issue of Forest & Bird) have produced six chicks this season (five surviving) with another two eggs still under incubation. The chicks are the only shore plover so far bred in captivity. The parent birds were transferred to the centre as eggs in 1991 from the bird’s only remaining stronghold of Rangatira (South East) Island in the Chathams. Once widespread around New Zealand, only about 100 birds now survive in the wild and they are at constant risk from any predators which may reach the island. DoC staff at Mt Bruce are particularly pleased for two reasons. Having assured food supplies, the plover have bred in their first rather than in their second or third year as they do in the wild, and secondly they are laying larger clutches of four eggs rather than the normal two or three.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 267, 1 February 1993, Page 5
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155Shore plover hatchings Forest and Bird, Issue 267, 1 February 1993, Page 5
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