| Site |
Pairs |
Summary of nests |
Comments |
Observers |
| Te Arai |
10 |
12 chicks fledged |
|
Gwenda Pulham & Heidrum Schinke |
| Omaha |
17 |
8 fledged and likely more than this |
Omaha spit is difficult to monitor as there is a high density of breeding pairs as well as it being a flocking site for non-breeding "teenagers".
|
Marie Ward & Sue Cook |
| Tawharanui |
10 |
13 chicks fledged from 44 eggs. Nests lost 1 lost to tide, 1 lost the high wind, 1 mid dunes lost most likely to heat, 2 nests had 3 eggs vanish where harrier were observed, 1 nest with 3 eggs did not hatch. |
Big improvement on last year with some management of BB gulls and use of upturned garden hanging flower baskets woven with flax and garden staples attached as legs. These were installed near nest sites that lacked any protection for chicks. Drift wood logs were also dragged into enclosures.
|
Alison Stanes, Sharon Kast, Cheri Crosby |
| Te Muri |
4 |
None |
Nests lost to tide inundation, predation and abandonment |
Sue Davy and Don Sutherland
|
| Wenderholm |
5 |
None |
Nests lost to tide inundation, predation and abandonment |
Sue Davy, and Don Sutherland
|
| Waiwera |
5 |
3 chicks fledged |
Dog predation of chicks still the dominant problem |
Sue Davy, Don Sutherland, Bob and Jenny Kelly
|
| Shakespear |
5 |
5 nests, 13 eggs, 2 eggs lost, 11 hatched, 10 chicks fledged |
Had to do some nest shifting and sandbagging over season, but otherwise beach nests fine. Spur winged plovers appeared to prevent dotterels from nesting in paddocks, persistently chasing the dotterels away. None of the potential paddock sites where dotterels were showing interest ended up with dotterel nesting, except for one paddock nest located, egg and dotterels disappeared a week later, thought to be due to presence of spur-winged plovers. On the evening of 8/1/15 there were 21 Dotterels on Te Haruhi Beach.16 were our birds with the addition of 2 adults and 2 newly fledged chicks from elsewhere
|
Jan Velvin |
| Whakanewha |
4 |
4 chicks fledged from 3 nests (2 from 1 nest and 1 survivor from 2 other clutches of 3). All fledglings hatched in December.
|
1 VOC chick, 3 pied stilt chicks and 3 banded rail chicks also fledged in dotterel protection area. |
Jonah Kitto-Verhoef |
| Albany |
9 |
13 chicks fledged |
|
Gwenda Pulham & Heidrum Schinke
|
| Ambury |
1 |
1 definitely fledged, maybe 2 others from the same clutch also fledged but not confirmed.
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|
Kevin Barker |
| Whatipu |
5 |
6 fledged |
|
Darryl Jeffries
|
| Bethells |
2 |
Birds nest well into the dunes amongst the spinifex about halfway down the main beach at Bethells |
Noted two pairs of NZ dotterles feeding on the ebach on 22 October 2014 with one fledged bird. When checking the stoat traps and rabbit bait stations in the dunes the dotterels are regularly heard and seen in the dunes and also flying between the beach and dunes. Over the breeding season from August to March predators caught in the Bethells beach dunes numbered 20 rats, 6 stoats, 6 weasels, and 14 hedgehogs
|
Greg Hoskins |
| Scandretts Bay |
4 |
2 Fledged. Multiple egg and chick losses all season. Nearly all to predation |
Suspects unconfirmed however cat captured adjacent nests after chick losses. Also 1 adult incubating pair disappeared at same time – regular Scandrett birds and quite likely lost 1 or both birds to same cat. Other reports of stoats seen in nesting areas, stoats also caught near nesting site, plus red billed gull suspected of taking some eggs. Hedgehogs captured on park during nesting season also – first time for number of years here.
|
David Edge and Alan Seelye |
| Goldsworthy Bay |
2 |
Possible fledging but unknown |
Not heavily monitored but pest control is carried out there too. |
David Edge and Alan Seelye |
| Motuora Island |
7 |
6 nests all laid 2-3 clutches but either eggs disappeared or the chicks disappeared in 1 – 2 week – only one pair suspect fledged their chicks |
The westerly winds and weather suspect took there toll on eggs in nov- dec . then dec suspect that the influx of campers / day visitors on the beach and influx of seagulls that come with the camping influx may have contributed to the lack of eggs hatching or chicks reaching maturity.Possibly one pair fledged their chicks. Not confirmed.
|
Vonny Sprey |
| Point England |
7 |
14 eggs, 3 chicks, 0 fledged |
Problems with pukekos and long grass
|
Shaun Lee |
| Martins Bay |
2 |
Multiple nests, some hatching, none fledged |
Some tide affected nests. Human activity may have caused stress for some birds. |
Alan Seelye |
