Dotterels chicks

WALT:Look beyond the text.

Today hokey pokey group been learning about Dotterels.A Dotterel is a kind of bird native to New Zealand That hides between sand and driftwood. Dotterels well there is not many in New Zealand so we have to keep more careful and make sure we don't step on the Dotterels nest. Dotterels enemy's are... Humans(us), Black-backed gulls, dogs, cats, weasels, stoats , and four wheel drive, that's a lot of enemy's. Dotterel's usually live in Mangawhai, Waiheke, Waipu and heaps other places. Did you know that New Zealand Dotterels are shorebirds,usually found on sandy beaches and sandspits or feeding on tidal estuaries, Did you know that there are only 1700 Dotterel birds left in NZ and did you know that they are mostly pale grey on the black, with off-white underpants which become flushed with rusty-orange in water and spring.they have a prominent head large dark brown eyes and strong black bill. We should be more careful with Dotterel birds because if we don't look after them then they will be extinct.There nest look like sand and driftwood.

Today i have learn't what Dotterels are and who the Dotterels enemy's are and how they scare people away.I got this information from this doc.