Thread: VIDEO: Spur-wing Plovers - Interesting Zig Zagging behavior

I think you will find that they are protected, they are classed as native because they are self introduced, they came in on cyclone Bola in 1980. And I thought the Kiwi name for them was Mother n Law bird.

Originally Posted by BeeMan

I think you will find that they are protected, they are classed as native because they are self introduced, they came in on cyclone Bola in 1980. And I thought the Kiwi name for them was Mother n Law bird.

Used to be, but not since 2008. Legal to shoot the noisey pricks now

Originally Posted by GWH

Whilist they were one behind the other a couple of times there was too much distance behind them for that to ever work with this cartridge, the little 20gr vmax blows up violently and theres no direct pass thru, other than tiny fragments blowing up like a tiny handgrenade.

Sad times when the bullet is too effective!

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Yes you are right, the hawks do persist. But the plovers keep everything else aware that danger is around.

Yes, the pukekos all sound the alarm bigtime too when the Hawkes are gliding over

Here is an extract from NZ Birds on line regarding the spur winged plover......

In just over 80 years since the first breeding record, it has gone from a fully protected native to having that protection removed in 2010. First recorded breeding near Invercargill in 1932, it subsequently spread northwards through the country, becoming established in Northland in the 1980s.



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Originally Posted by kukuwai

Here is an extract from NZ Birds on line regarding the spur winged plover......

In just over 80 years since the first breeding record, it has gone from a fully protected native to having that protection removed in 2010. First recorded breeding near Invercargill in 1932, it subsequently spread northwards through the country, becoming established in Northland in the 1980s.



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May bee Bola blew South, TNX @kukuwai.

Originally Posted by muzza

They turned up in this part of Taranaki in the late 1970's. I always though they had got blown across the Tasman in big storms but maybe not . They needed flack jackets once they established anyway......

You should of tuned them up then @muzza, Bola would not of moved them up here then.