A common breeder in New Zealand, where it often shares its nesting areas with Black Stilt
and Wrybill, most of this species migrate to Eastern Australia in the non-breeding
season, a unique migration pattern for a wader.
Two of these photos show Auckland Island birds, a larger subspecies which may be a potential split,
since it is also sedentary; the whole population of some 150-200 birds merely moves down from the
higher breeding areas to a reef in the north of the islands.
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