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	DOTTEREL - Definition
		It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler.
		In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures.
		Note: The ringed dotterel (or ring plover) is {Charadrius hiaticula}.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/dotterel (62 words)

	New Zealand Dotterel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Northern NZ dotterel are found around the coast in the Waikato, Auckland and Northland regions.
		When people are near older chicks, parent dotterels tell their chicks to hide.
		Dotterels do not like nesting next to signs and fences, and people may come close to the nest to read the sign and accidentally stand on the nest.
	www.kcc.org.nz /birds/dotterel.asp (1358 words)

	Dotterel - Majella National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The dotterel is a small wading bird, and has the typical long legs and beak of aquatic birds, but which has the particularity of mating at high altitudes, in this case on the arid mountain plains of the Majella at over 2,000 m.
		The dotterel is a migratory bird which winters in the desert regions of North Africa and the Middle East.
		The dotterel doesn't seem to be afraid of man and this, together with the fact that it lays its eggs on the ground, makes the species extremely vulnerable.
	www.parcomajella.it /fauna/en_piviere.htm (393 words)

	New Zealand Dotterel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		NZ Dotterels are shorebirds, usually found on sandy beaches and sandspits or feeding on tidal estuaries.
		NZ dotterels can be hard to see, because their colouring merges effectively with the background of sand, shells and dune vegetation in their environment.
		NZ dotterels commonly try to distract intruders near their nest by pretending to be injured, all the time leading the intruder further from the nest.
	www.doc.govt.nz /Conservation/001~Plants-and-Animals/001~Native-Animals/New-Zealand-Dotterel.asp (943 words)

	Newmont Waihi Gold - The New Zealand Dotterel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dotterels eat a wide variety of food, most of which is found in the intertidal area.
		The small numbers of New Zealand dotterel is due to several factors, but in particular, introduced predators such as cats, stoats and ferrets.
		New Zealand dotterels have been attracted to the Newmont Waihi Gold's tailings storage facilities to nest and for several years, while there were large open spaces of waste rock on the first embankment, nesting pairs were found.
	staging.newmont.com /en/operations/australianz/waihigold/environment/dotterel/index.asp (370 words)

	iittala Toikka Dotterel - Pre-2001
		Dotterel (or Plover) is designed by renowned Finnish artist Oiva Toikka and carries his signature on its base.
		Dotterel, at 5" x 9-1/2" (13 x 24 cm), is larger than most Iittala birds.
		The body color of Dotterels currently being produced is primarily light brown to olive green, similar to the bottom bird in photo.
	www.finnstyle.com /dotterel.html (124 words)

	Black-fronted Dotterel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops) is a small, slender plover, widespread throughout most of Australia and New Zealand.
		It is common in freshwater wetlands, around the edges of lakes and billabongs, and in shallow, temporary claypan pools.
		Unlike many other wading birds, Black-fronted Dotterels retain the same plumage all year round, which makes identification easier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black-fronted_Dotterel (171 words)

	New Zealand dotterel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Six years ago a stoat den with kits was found at Waiaua and on analysis the remains of 11 dotterels were identified; since the stoat probably hunted over night and the male bird is known to incubate at night a disproportionate number of pairs would have been broken.
		One advantage that the dotterel nesting areas in this region have over many of those further north is that they are not plagued by holiday makers to any great extent; in some places unless chicks are fledged by Christmas little hope is held out for their survival as a result of human interference.
		I have witnessed a dotterel chase a fl back gull, a white face heron, a paradise shellduck and even a pair of variable oystercatchers that came too close to its eggs.
	www.nzbirds.com /birds/nzdotterel.html (1040 words)

	Eurasian Dotterel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eurasian Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus), or in Europe just Dotterel, is a small wader in the plover family of birds.
		This species is migratory, wintering in a narrow belt across north Africa from Morocco eastwards to Iran.
		The Dotterel's food is insects and other small invertebrates, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eurasian_Dotterel (267 words)

	New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus) Ohope Beach
		The New Zealand dotterel is endemic to New Zealand.
		In the photograph to the left is a nest of the New Zealand dotterel.
		The main breeding time for the New Zealand dotterel is spring and summer, two to three eggs are laid and incubated for around 28 days but it takes six to seven weeks before the chicks fledge (fly).
	www.ohopebeach.info /nature-newzealand-dotterel-bird.htm (403 words)

	Eurasian Dotterel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Eurasian Dotterel: Medium-sized shorebird with gray upperparts, rust-red flanks and belly with fl lower margin, and white vent.
		Eurasian Dotterel: Three brownish olive eggs with large irregular fl spots laid on a ground in a deep depression lined with leaves and lichens.
		Eurasian Dotterel: Wiinter and immature American Golden-Plover looks similar but has larger dark legs and feet, lacks pale breast band, eye stripes are shorter and do not meet at the back of crown; lacks dusky gray flanks and sides of breast.
	www.percevia.com /explorer/db/birds_of_north_america_western/obj/371/target.aspx (501 words)

	Black-fronted Dotterel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I have found young dotterel during the last week of August, but by the second week of September, most of the birds are building, and quite a number will be already sitting.
		“Young dotterel take readily to the water, and are good swimmers, using their legs rapidly and carrying their head and neck upright with a comical self–possessed air.
		Most unlikely places, one would say, to find banded dotterel, yet strangely enough these birds are to be found there in numbers, even in January and Februrary; and stranger still, their food consists chiefly of the fruits of two plants of mat–like growth — Coprosma petrei and Muhlenbekia axillaris.
	www.nzbirds.com /birds/bandeddotterel.html (1294 words)

	Holt, S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Energetic costs are probably high in the dotterel’s arctic-alpine environment and uniparental care restricts the foraging time available to meet these costs, so that incubating dotterel may have to fuel themselves partly using body stores.
		Nesting male dotterel lost 7.8% of their mass through the incubation period but were 6.8% heavier during periods of high food abundance.
		We conclude that, since dotterel were heavier when energetic constraints were lifted, mass loss through incubation was principally a consequence of energetic constraint, rather than adaptive mass optimisation.
	www.oikos.ekol.lu.se /jab.33.3.abstracts/JAB2876abs.htm (179 words)

	The Dotterel,a classic bird monograph fom birdbooksdirect.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The dotterel is a northern bird, breeding on the highest and barest tops of the Cairngorms, the Grampians and also sparingly in the North of England.
		The dotterel's breeding behaviour is of particular interest: slightly larger and more brightly coloured than the cock, the hen does the wooing leaving her smaller mate to brood her eggs while she joins other "grass widows"
		His book is both a description of dotterels in their remote habitat and a definitive account of all aspects of their life history.
	www.birdbooksdirect.com /dotterel.htm (193 words)

	New Zealand Dotterel
		A northern New Zealand dotterel, Charadrius obscurus aquilonius, or tuturiwhatu.
		This is a northern New Zealand dotterel, Charadrius obscurus aquilonius...
		The banded dotterel and the northern New Zealand dotterel are threatened with extinction because of:...
	www.specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/N/New_Zealand_Dotterel.shtml (2094 words)

	The New Zealand Dotterel
		The decline of the New Zealand dotterel is due to several factors, but in particular, introduced predators such as cats, stoats and ferrets.
		New Zealand dotterels have been attracted to the Martha Mine tailings storage facilities to nest.
		During winter many dotterels were seen at the tailings storage facility and were likely to be searching for suitable nest sites for the breeding season.
	www.marthamine.co.nz /dotterel.html (319 words)

	Dotterel nesting warning from DOC - 1XX Whakatane
		The Department of Conservation is warning the public endangered dotterel could continue nesting on Bay of Plenty beaches through until the end of January.
		The New Zealand bird's survival status was upgraded from threatened to acutely critical recently.
		He says people must continue to be aware of dotterel nests around river mouths, especially at Ohiwa Harbour and Matata.
	www.1xx.co.nz /stories/story.102770.html (118 words)

	DOC Media Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With the arrival of spring, love is in the air and males are already flaunting their orange-feathered waistcoats on local beaches in the Bay of Plenty – male birds that is, as NZ dotterel establish territories to begin nesting.
		The NZ dotterel’s protection status has been significantly upgraded from threatened to acutely critical.
		They have sourced funding from Te Manu Toroa for a NZ dotterel monitoring and education officer and this person will be appointed soon.
	www.doc.govt.nz /whats-new/presult.asp?prID=1598 (482 words)

	DOC Media Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		“Dotterels nest along the open coastline, however the eggs and chicks are so well camouflaged it makes them extremely vulnerable to being stepped on or driven over.
		We are in the process of selecting a person to fulfil the duties of NZ Dotterel and Education Officer.
		Dotterels were banded last season for the first time in five years and they will now be banded with a different colour each successive year to enable identification and monitoring.
	www.doc.govt.nz /whats-new/presult.asp?prID=1251 (456 words)

	Dotterel, Charadrius morinellus
		In north-east Norfolk dotterel are often discovered in coastal fields between Paston and Waxham and the sugar beet fields near Bacton.
		According to Victorian collectors, one of the main migration routes of British dotterel passed through the borders of west Suffolk and south Cambridgeshire.
		Spring movements nowadays are considerably later and the birds are doubtless travelling to northern breeding grounds seldom far from the snow-line in Scandinavia.
	www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird-guide/dotterel.htm (468 words)

	BirdForum - Bairds sandpiper on Saturday and dotterel on Sunday
		We found in a small area 8 dotterels (at least 5 juveniles and 1 adult among them), a juvenile Montagues Harrier, a juvenile marsh harrier, lots of starlings and wood pigeons, stock doves, grey partridge, corn bunting, yellow wagtail, wheatear, whinchat, a lesser flbacked gull, some flheaded gulls, common buzzard and kestrel.
		The dotterels where chased into the air by the juvenile marsh harrier, together with all the starlings and pigeons and were circling around with the other birds for a while before settling down again- on the ground they were so well camouflaged we hadn´t registered they were there until then...
		And I think that the last Dotterel to be seen in Iceland was one which was discovered on the evening news on TV, it could be clearly seen standing in a field behind a reporter who was at the president's residence outside Reykjavík!
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=22295 (1124 words)

	A Dotterel Dream
		For example The Dotterel Inn, Speeton is near where many birds were shot for their feathers, which were used by anglers.
		Dotterel have always been known to stop over in spring on favourite hilltop feeding sites, so when I returned to live in this area I researched where they had been seen, and the two local moor tops where there had been intermittent sightings were Shunner Howe, East Rosedale and Danby Beacon.
		Granted there are size and colour differences compared to dotterel, and both birds often made my heart skip a beat as they moved and became visible, but they were never dotterel.
	www.ryenats.org.uk /dotrel.htm (886 words)

	Ocean Wanderers Guide to Shorebirds - New Zealand Dotterel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The New Zealand dotterel is endemic to New Zealand and classified as threatened.
		New Zealand Dotterels prefer sandy beaches, usually near river mouths where invertebrate food is plentiful.
		The decline of the New Zealand Dotterel is due to introduced predators such as cats, stoats and ferrets and by disturbance of nesting birds by human activity.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /NZDotterel.html (111 words)

	Black-fronted Dotterel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They are common in freshwater wetlands the edges of lakes and billabongs and shallow temporary claypan pools.
		Unlike many other wading birds Black-fronted Dotterels the same plumage all year round which identification easier.
		They forage in a series of short motions holding the body horizontal stopping to from time to time with a rapid motion.
	www.freeglossary.com /Black-fronted_dotterel (172 words)

	dotterel
		Three pale-green eggs with brown markings are laid in hollows in the ground.
		While the dotterel males incubate the brood, they often leave the eggs unattended for periods of between two and ten hours, in temperatures as low as 0°C, whilst they seek food.
		In 2000, Scottish researchers discovered that, contrary to previous belief, the eggs still hatch if their temperature has dropped to such levels during incubation, although they take longer to do so.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007587.html (243 words)

	NZ Dotterel
		Particular note was made of New Zealand Dotterel and Variable Oystercatcher numbers as they are classified as threatened species.
		A mean of 2.9 NZ Dotterel and 2.0 Oystercatcher were found during the low tide counts.
		The number of each species found in the 1994 study has been compared to the number of birds found in 1997.
	www.igrin.co.nz /trisha/NZ%20Dotterel.htm (583 words)

	Tiritiri Matangi Island - New Zealand Dotterel
		This large squat tame dotterel has a large head, a heavy fl bill with a slightly upturned tip and proportionately short olive-grey legs.
		There are two subspecies, the larger more boldly coloured Southern NZ Dotterel (obscurus) which breeds on Stewart Island (under 100 left) and the smaller Northern NZ Dotterel (aquilonius) which breeds in Northland, Auckland, the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne and Northern Hawke’s Bay and some off shore islands (c 1400 birds).
		Northern NZ Dotterel in the past occasionally bred on the reef of Tiritiri Matangi but not in recent years.
	www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz /Fauna/Dotterel.htm (405 words)

	Oodnadatta Track - inland dotterel
		The Inland Dotterel is a striking dry-land wader bird.
		It is seen in all months of the year, usually in small flocks and in open habitat country, particularly gibber plains.
		When disturbed the Inland Dotterel flies a short distance on long pointed wings before landing and scurrying off, ducking here and there behind bushes as it goes.
	www.austcamel.com.au /exp_peid.htm (112 words)

	“Welcome to EchoLink Node ZL1VK in Auckland New Zealand”
		With the exception of a few birds on the east coast in the Gisborne area and the very odd bird on the west coast, the Bay of Plenty is as far south as the northern sub-species of the N.Z. dotterel, is found.
		I have noticed that quite often three chicks are hatched but are quickly reduced to two-the parents being unable to protect the third.
		Over recent years the population of spur-winged plover, Vanellus miles, has greatly increased and they are often to be found in large numbers in the dotterel nesting areas.
	www.qsl.net /zl1vk/NZDotterel.html (740 words)

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