Spur-winged plover | New Zealand Birds Online
Spur-winged plover. Adult. Wellington, June 2009. Image © Duncan Watson. The NZ spur-winged plover population has a unique conservation trajectory among our native bird species. In just over 80 years since the first breeding record, it has gone from a fully protected native to having that protection removed in 2010. First recorded breeding near Invercargill in 1932, it subsequently spread northwards through the country, becoming established in Northland in the 1980s. It is a lapwing.
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