The feeding and roosting of the Banded dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus), Turnstone (Arenaria interpres), Eastern golden plover (Pluvialis dominica fulva) and Far-eastern curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) were studied for six days on Farewell Spit. Five habitat zones are defined and the use of these zones by the four species and their behaviour in them are given.
Te Anau, 5-6 May 1978. Prepared and published by the Fiordland National Park Board.
Available from author, Balingu 6253, Western Australia
Edited by Stanley R. Temple. 466 pp. University of Wisconsin Press. 1978.
The circumstances are given of the first recorded Whiskered Terns (Chlidonias hybridus) in New Zealand, at Lake Horowhenua, Levin in 1977 and 1978. Reasons are given why the birds were probably from Australia (C. h. javanicus). The field characters of the non-breeding adult plumage of the Whiskered Tern, Black Tern (C. niger) , White-winged Black Tern (C. leucopterus) and Black-fronted Tern (C. albostriatus) are compared. The nomenclature of Mees (1977) is used, at species level.