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A group of volunteers on Auckland's Hibiscus Coast are banding together to protect endangered birds on their beach.
Dotterels are under constant threat from dogs, hedgehogs, and the elements, but will they succumb?
Not if the Big Manly Dotterel Minders can help it.
Reporter Tom Taylor and camera operator Nick Monro have the story.