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Watch out for dotterels: Tips for sharing Bay beaches with nesting shorebirds
2 Jan, 2021 02:51 AM
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Dotterel nesting on the Mount main beach. Photos / George Novak
Shauni James is the Rotorua Weekender reportershauni.james@nzme.co.nz@thedailypost
With the summer weather well and truly here, and many people heading to the beach for the holidays, it can be a stressful time for birds using the coast to nest.
Local conservationist Carole Long said the New Zealand dotterel was probably one of the most endangered bird breeds which nested in the area.
She said they previously nested on Matakana Island, but many of those sites had eroded, and now it was common for them to nest on Mount Maunganui s main beach.