A migration running out of time? New Zealand banded dotterels reach Australia later each year
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- On open beaches, gravel riverbeds and bare volcanic plateaus, banded dotterels—or double-banded plovers, as they are called in Australia—are a familiar and much-loved sight across New Zealand, the only country where these charismatic plovers breed.