Showing posts with label Anarhynchus frontalis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anarhynchus frontalis. Show all posts

Saturday, July 1, 2017

WRYBILL

Photographed at Miranda, June 2017
 1203                WRYBILL              Anarhynchus frontalis

NEW ZEALAND                 55

Feeds on wet mudflats. 20 cm. Breeds on shingle riverbeds of Canterbury and Otago; almost all of the c. 5300 birds migrate to spend Jan-Aug at estuaries of North Island.