The seemingly bare riverbeds of the high-country have their own special, often minute vegetation. Mosses and lichens, cushion and mat plants, are early colonisers. Taking the natural flow can cause braids of the river to dry up and allow weeds such as broom and lupins to take over the open shingle where threatened birds nest and feed. The bird here is a banded dotterel, common along the river.
GORDON ELL, BUSH FILMS
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Forest and Bird, Issue 300, 1 May 2001, Page 32
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72The seemingly bare riverbeds of the high-country have their own special, often minute vegetation. Mosses and lichens, cushion and mat plants, are early colonisers. Taking the natural flow can cause braids of the river to dry up and allow weeds such as broom and lupins to take over the open shingle where threatened birds nest and feed. The bird here is a banded dotterel, common along the river. GORDON ELL, BUSH FILMS Forest and Bird, Issue 300, 1 May 2001, Page 32
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