Variable oystercatcher
Summertime holidaymakers disturb nesting birds and their young. At left, a nesting colony of white-fronted terns still has young to feed at Christmas. Numbers of the ‘threatened’ New Zealand dotterel (top) and ‘rare’ variable oystercatcher (below) are heavily affected by human disturbance.
GEOFF MOON
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Forest and Bird, Issue 294, 1 November 1999, Page 21
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46Variable oystercatcher Summertime holidaymakers disturb nesting birds and their young. At left, a nesting colony of white-fronted terns still has young to feed at Christmas. Numbers of the ‘threatened’ New Zealand dotterel (top) and ‘rare’ variable oystercatcher (below) are heavily affected by human disturbance. GEOFF MOON Forest and Bird, Issue 294, 1 November 1999, Page 21
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