#dotterel

[herpsandbirds]

Inland Dotterel (Peltohyas australis), mother with chicks, family Charadriidae, Australian Outback

photograph by Jan Wegener

[onichophora]

Seabird Medley

From top clockwise - Tākapu (Australasian Gannet), Tarāpunga (Red-billed Gull), Tara Iti (Fairy Tern), Tūturiwhatu (New Zealand Dotterel), Tōrea pango (Variable Oystercatcher). These are all shorebird species seen on beaches from my part of the country.

Can't remember when I did this, probably Nov 2018. Can't remember what I called it either. I painted them on little craft canvases and then glued them together with popsicle sticks

[birdblues]

Black-fronted Dotterel

[redrcs]

First sighting, Red Capped Plover (Dotterel)

Stromatolite pool, Lake Thetis

On my travels

[ksparchomchuk]

Birds of Tauranga Bay

1 of millions of seagulls and 1 of 2,500 NZ Dotterels left in the world.

New Zealand

[franklin-l-toote]

[maypoleman1]

10th May

Dotterel Day

Dotterel. Source: British Trust for Ornithology website

Today is Dotterel Day, which fell at the height of the old bird netting season, in which the allegedly dozy Dotterel, was a favourite prey. Only a few hundred of these birds now survive in the British Isles, mainly in the north of Scotland, although this reduction of numbers is recent and more likely due to climate change rather than historic hunting. Being easy to catch, the Dotterel developed a reputation for stupidity, leading to the term ‘dotterel’ being used to describe a foolish or gullible person.

A sprawling fair on the streets of Randwick, near Stroud in Gloucestershire, the Runnick Wap, takes place on the second Saturday in May, leading it to be named Wap Saturday. It features a magnificent parade in which the participants dress in eighteenth and nineteenth century costume and carry a Wap Mayor and Wap Queen to the village pond before dumping them in. The suitably drenched Mayor and Queen then lead a Double Gloucester cheese rolling event down a steep bank to determine the health of the crops in the coming summer. The events are supposed to date from medieval times.

[fastman27]

Aptrill Day 21: Red-kneed Dotterel.

[luff-gore]

Crozier: Sir John, myself, Mr. Blanky and Mr. Reid: Only four of us at this table are Arctic veterans.

Gore, who was literally a Mate on the Terror during Sir George Back's Arctic expedition in 1836/37: Okay :,)

[dovemoulins]

just realised i forgot to post my bird pics from when i went to an ecology camp in south australia!!! so fun. i have a bunch more so i might do a part 2

[wild-at-mind]

It's actually really adorable that my birdtrack app switches up whether the little icon depicting the bird species is male or female.

[jessicazoe]

Save the Dotterels — BayBuzz

Did you know 16% of the world’s population of Pohowera (Banded Dotterels) are found here in Hawke’s Bay? For the first time, last year a group of volunteers and keen birders set up the Save the Dotterel’s group to monitor 1.5 km of Hawke Bay beach front from the northern end of The Esplanade at Westshore to beach front adjacent to the Rotary pathway spanning from the end of Ferguson Street at…

[der-reisende-lammergeier]

Riempiamo di bestiole carine la nostra dash.

Taggata da @tetrachlorobenzene per portare animaletti a spassi su Tumblr, e assegnatomi il compito di mostrarvi un qualche piccione da me fotografato, eccovi dei pivieri tortolini, dalla Scandinavia alle Alpi sulla via per il Nordafrica.

[birdblues]

Eurasian Dotterel

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Archaic Words: Nature

for your next poem/story

Alnath - the first star in the horns of Aries, whence the first mansion of the moon takes its name

Apricate - to bask in the sun

Arbeset - a strawberry tree

Brandy bottles - the flowers of the yellow water-lily

Death's hearb - nightshade

Defoulings - the marks made by a deer's feet in wet soil

Dotterel - a bird said to be so foolishly fond of imitation as to be easily caught

Druve - a muddy river

Gaincope - to go across a field the nearest way; to meet with something

Kissing-comfits - sugar-plums perfumed, for sweetening the breath

Leite - light; lightning

Mel-silvestre - honeysuckle

Mock shadow - twilight

Nubilated - clouded

Rillet - a small stream or rivulet

Shaad - a meadow

Stickle - the current below a waterfall

Sucre roseth - sugar of roses

Tainct - a kind of red-coloured spider very common in the summertime

Well-stream - a spring; a fountain

Source ⚜ More: Writing Notes & References ⚜ Word Lists

[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

Bird #47 - the southern New Zealand dotterel

A sadder post today, sorry! While the northern subspecies is faring well, the southern NZ dotterel numbered only 101 birds in April, and the number continues to drop due to introduced predators. In fact, the population has declined by a fifth from 126 just in the last year. These birds can naturally live to be 30; their current life expectancy is only about 5 years.

They breed on Stewart Island to the south of New Zealand, where a few rangers are stationed to trap introduced predators. Large areas of the island aren't protected, though, since there isn't enough funding for more traps and rangers.

You can find out more here on the NZ Department of Conservation site (they even have a little 10 minute documentary but its really sad), and if you'd like to help them out you can donate here!