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.00Young Dotterel on alert, Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand

.00, Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand

.00, Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand

.00Young Dotterel on alert, Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand

.00“Teenager” Dotterel chick with mother in the background, Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand

.00Dotterel, one unhatched egg and one newly hatched chick in nesting scrape at Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand.

.00New Zealand dotterel chicks (Charadrius obscurus), a species of threatened endemic shorebirds, attempt to hide in their shallow nest at Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand several hours after hatching, Tuesday December 20, 2011. Photo: Malcolm Pullman

.00A with leg band, on the foreshore at Managawhai, Northland, New Zealand, Friday, December 03, 2010.

.00Young , Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand

.00in estuary at Waipu, Northland, New Zealand.

.00at Waipu, Northland, New Zealand.

.00Dotterel eggs in nesting scrape at Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand.

.00Doterell doing a “broken wing” display to lead intruders away from its nesting scrape at Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand

.00Sharp, powerful beak of a New Zealand Dotterel

.00Chicks at the Beach, eight day old threatened dotterel chicks looking for insects on a carpet of pohutukawa blossoms in the fore dunes at Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand, Wednesday December 28, 2011.

.00Dotterel doing a “broken wing” display to lead intruders away from its nesting scrape at Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand.

.00Dotterel on alert looking out from nesting “scrape” , Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand

.00A female Dotterel looking a little ragged as it struggles to raise three chicks at Sandy Bay, on Northland’s Tutukaka Coast in early January, during the busy summer holiday period. Photo: Malcolm Pullman

.00Dotterel chicks cross a small stream at Sandy Bay, on Northland’s Tutukaka Coast in early January, during the busy summer holiday period. Photo: Malcolm Pullman

.00Alert at a young age, a unaware of the danger signalled by vehicle tracks in the sand at Sandy Bay, on Northland’s Tutukaka Coast in early January, during the busy summer holiday period. Photo: Malcolm Pullman

.00Foraging in the danger zone. A Dotterel chick seems unaware of the vehcile tracks in the sand at Sandy Bay, on Northland’s Tutukaka Coast in early January, during the busy summer holiday period. Photo: Malcolm Pullman

.00Alert at a young age, a , on Northland’s Tutukaka Coast in early January, during the busy summer holiday period. Photo: Malcolm Pullman

.00Alert at a young age, a Dotterel chick at Sandy Bay, on Northland’s Tutukaka Coast in early January, during the busy summer holiday period. Photo: Malcolm Pullman

.00Recently hatched at Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand