Ruddy turnstone - Arenaria interpres
Bird in breeding plumage just prior to migrating back to the Arctic Circle.
Photographed at Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand.
"Recorded as far south as subantarctic Campbell Island (52°S), the ruddy turnstone is the third most numerous Arctic migrant wader species that occurs in New Zealand. Breeding adults have brightly patterned black, white, rufous-brown or "tortoiseshell" plumage on the upperparts, which develops annually towards the end of the austral summer". www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz
Ruddy turnstone - Arenaria interpres
Bird in breeding plumage just prior to migrating back to the Arctic Circle.
Photographed at Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand.
"Recorded as far south as subantarctic Campbell Island (52°S), the ruddy turnstone is the third most numerous Arctic migrant wader species that occurs in New Zealand. Breeding adults have brightly patterned black, white, rufous-brown or "tortoiseshell" plumage on the upperparts, which develops annually towards the end of the austral summer". www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz