Tui De Roy / Auckland Island Banded Dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus exilis) foraging in open fell fields. Enderby Isand, Auckland Group, New Zealand.

Tui De Roy / Auckland Island Banded Dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus exilis) foraging amongst fields of gentians. Enderby Island, Auckland Group, New Zealand.

Rob Drummond / Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus), Australia

Jan Wegener / Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus), Australia

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus) portrait, Auckland Islands, New Zealand. November.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus) portrait, Auckland Islands, New Zealand. November.

Jonathan Harrod / Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus) on ground nest, Lake Ellesmere, New Zealand

Jonathan Harrod / Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus) newly hatched chick, Lake Ellesmere, New Zealand

Brent Stephenson / Adult breeding plumage male Banded Dotterel / Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus) running over mudflats. Manawatu Estuary, Manawatu, New Zealand, September.

Mike Read / Double banded plover (Charadrius bicinctus) on nest in rain, Kaikoura, New Zealand

Mike Read / Double banded plover (Charadrius bicinctus) on nest in rain, Kaikoura, New Zealand

Brent Stephenson / Banded Dotterel / Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus) female against a blue sky. Ngaruroro River Estuary, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, November.