How To Use dotterel In A Sentence
- Shore bird numbers are declining, he says, particularly among oystercatchers, red-capped dotterels and beach thick-knees.
- He told me with great delight that two dotterels and their chick were further up the beach.
- Banded dotterel Charadrius bicinctus and New Zealand falcon Falco novaezeelandiaeare also present. Tongariro National Park, New Zealand
- The name generally applied to birds of the genus Charadrius, which also includes the dotterel.
- River bed invertebrates support a diverse birdlife including wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis, paradise shelduck Tadorna variegata, black-billed gull, black-fronted tern Sterna albistriata and banded dotterel Pluvialis obscura. Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
- Overgrazing on upland pastures is causing the decline of native species including skylarks, curlews and dotterels.
- Up to 74 shorebird species have been sighted here, with a peak of 40,000 migratory birds utilizing the Firth at one time, including the New Zealand dotterel (Charadrius obscurus VU) and more than half of New Zealand's wrybill population. Northland temperate kauri forests
- Volunteer beach clean-ups were cancelled earlier on Tuesday due to the weather and the fact that the beaches were virtually clear of oil, but work continues to protect wildlife in the area, particularly the dotterel, an endangered New Zealand bird. New Zealand Ship Spills More Oil
- We used video cameras to monitor nests of the banded dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus), to test whether conventional nest monitoring increased the chances of nests being visited by predators.
- The mountain, home to rare birds such as the dotterel and a host of precious arctic wildlife, is one of Britain's most ecologically important mountains.
