Photographed at Ambury, New Zealand, June 2017 |
(* 17) SPURWING PLOVER Vanellus miles
NEW ZEALAND 9
In Australia known as Masked Lapwing. An abundant native across most of New Zealand. 38 cm. Colonised NZ from Australia in the 1930s and after a slow start spread after 1960 across most of country.
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