This Black oystercatcher photographed at Kaikoura over the summer (2011) is three years old (banded in 2008 as a chick). In 2009 it spent it's spring, as an immature bird, at Collingwood- Golden Bay, a distance of some 350 kilometres away. Now as an adult the bird has returned to Kaikoura Peninsula, where it was banded by researcher Lindsay Rowe.
Colour banding gives detailed insights into birds' movements and shows just how inter-connected our estuaries and coastal environments are for shorebird populations.
(gy/or K12081banded KK Pen as Pull 6 Dec 2008 This bird had been on holiday at Collingwood in spring 2009)
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