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| | Ohiwa Harbour, New Zealand birding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | Despite the isolation and relative small size of New Zealand in the vast expanse of the South Pacific ocean, at least 36 arctic waders have been recorded here and of these about a dozen are annual visitors, some in small numbers and the rest irregular stragglers. |
 | | This flyway is one of the least understood of the world's migration flyways as much of the flight path, inaccessible to ornithologists and bird watchers, has had to be deduced from the scanty evidence of recovered banded birds. |
 | | Rare migrants that stray from their regular migration route and reach New Zealand only occasionally such as the Siberian and wandering tattlers, terek sandpiper, pectoral sandpiper, large sand dotterel, Mongolian dotterel, grey plover, sanderling, Hudsonian godwit, greenshank and marsh sandpiper, are termed vagrants. |
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