Migratory shorebirds

During bird surveys in the northeast of Tassie in autumn 2023, our team came across a migratory wader with bands on its mind – banded both in the sense of stripes and identification markers.

After some investigation, we discovered that this double-banded plover sporting no less than 4 leg bands was an adult female, banded in the MacKenzie Basin of New Zealand in November 2022 by the Banded Dotterel Study Kaikoura. Double-banded plovers migrate between New Zealand and Australia annually and the information gained from this bird will help to better understand the movement patterns of these birds.