This is NZ's other oystercatcher.. the Variable Oystercatcher (Haematopus unicolor). On Aramoana Beach near Dunedin at sunrise with the sound of the surf in the background. 😀 #BirdingNewZealand #oystercatchers #shorebirds #waders #WorldShorebirdsDay

A small section of a single flock of 3,000+ South Island Oystercatchers (Haematopus finschi) at the Robert Findlay Wildlife Reserve near Auckland. This is on the north island so I guess they were lost! 😂 #BirdingNewZealand #shorebirds #waders #oystercatchers #WorldShorebirdsDay

To mark #WorldShorebirdsDay I thought I would share a few photos from the archive. Here is a Wrybill (Anarhynchus frontalis) at the Robert Findlay Wildlife Reserve (Miranda) just SE of Auckland, NZ. The only bird in the world with a sideways curved bill. #BirdingNewZealand #shorebirds #plovers