A small New Zealand plover with grey and white plumage and a bill that bends to the right.
弯嘴鸻
Anarhynchus frontalis, family Charadriidae
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In winter Miranda is home to birds from New Zealand's South Island, particularly wrybills, pied oystercatchers and kotuku (white herons).
One of our party estimated there were 2400 wrybills in this one spot.
Craig fielded heaps of questions during the day about why lupins were being targeted, why other weeds are not such a threat, and what is special about the wrybill.
The wrybill's close cousin, the banded dotterel, favours the sides of rivers, lakes, open land with sparse vegetation and coastal lagoons and beaches.
Nevertheless, a number of rare and protected birds such as kea, the New Zealand falcon, rock wrens, black stilt, wrybills, and black-fronted terns can be observed.
While the tide was very slow to move the birds in, eventually the wrybills came my way and I crawled their way, until finally I was just 1.5 m from the nearest wrybill and 3 m from the dunlin.
The endemic wrybill has the unique characteristic of a bill bent to the right.
We also search again for chukor and return to a braided river - in search of breeding wrybill.
There were lots of little crabs scuttling around behind the mangroves and on the tidal flats there were wrybill, plump little birds that have beaks skewed to the right.
The group has received no formal funding but has managed on a shoe string to make significant gains in protecting the wrybill and making the local community aware of the importance of this population.
Parky the ambassador had his photo taken with a wrybill today.
Shorebirds endemic to New Zealand, wrybills are the only birds with side-durving beaks.