Reprieve for wrybill plover
PA Dunedin One of the world’s most unusual birds has been given a reprieve, thanks to pressure by a Canterbury secondary school. The southern wrybill population has been decreasing in recent years but a Conservation Department scientist, Dr Ken Hughey, said community involvement had been instrumental in helping save the small grey birds. The staff and pupils of Rangiora High School had succeeded in persuading the North Canterbury Catchment Board to set aside a wildlife management area covering a 10km stretch of the Ashley River, north of Christchurch, to protect the bird’s northernmost breeding grounds. The small grey birds are the only birds in the world with a bill permanently twisted to the side, enabling them to reach under riverbed stones to catch insects. The birds are found only in the South Island, the population being estimated at between 3000 to 4000.
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Press, 24 August 1988, Page 2
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