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Aikman, H. 1999. Attempts to establish Shore Plover Thinornis novaeseelandiae on Motuora Island, Hauraki Gulf. Notornis 46: 195-206.
Aikman, H.; Davis, A.; Miskelly, C.; O'Connor, S.; Taylor, G. 2001. Chatham Islands threatened birds: recovery and management plans. Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand.
Anon. 2009. BirdLife grant helps endangered shorebird. World Birdwatch 31(3): 5.
Armitage, I. 2008. Foot-trembling and beak probing by the Shore Plover (Thinornis novaeseelandiae) on sandy beaches. Notornis 55(1): 38-39.
Bell, D.; Bell, M. 2000. Discovery of a second natural wild population of the New Zealand shore plover (Thinornis novaeseelandiae). Notornis 47: 166-167.
Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., ?ekercio?lu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.
Davis, A. 1994. Status, distribution, and population trends of the New Zealand Shore Plover Thinornis novaeseelandiae. Notornis 41(Supplement): 179-194.
Department of Conservation. 2001. New Zealand Shore Plover recovery plan 2001-2011. Department of Conservation, Wellington, NZ.
Dowding, J. E.; Kennedy, E. S. 1993. Size, age structure and morphometrics of the Shore Plover population on South East Island. Notornis 40: 213-222.
Dowding, J.E. and Murphy, E.C. 2001. The impact of predation by introduced mammals on endemic shorebirds in New Zealand: a conservation perspective. Biological Conservation 99: 47-64.
Dowding, J.E.; Collen, R.; Davis, A.M.; O’Connor, S.M.; Smith, M.H. 2003. Gains and losses in the New Zealand shore plover (Thinornis novaeseelandiae) recovery programme, 1993-2003. Proceedings of the Australasian Shorebirds Conference Global Series No. 18, Wetlands International. Canberra.
Dowding, J.E.; O’Connor, S.M. 2013. Reducing the risk of extinction of a globally threatened shorebird: translocations of the shore plover (Thinornis novaeseelandiae), 1990-2012. Notornis 60: 70-84.
Fleming, C. A. 1939. Birds of the Chatham Islands. Emu 38: 380-413, 492-509.
Gummer, H. 2003. New Zealand's Secret Plovers. Wingspan 13: 25.
Heather, B. D. & Robertson, H. A. 1997. The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 08 December 2022).
J.E. Dowding. 2016. Shore Plover in Miskelly, C.M. (ed) NZ Birds Online. Available at: http://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/shore-plover.
Marchant, S. and Higgins, P.J. 1993. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds, 2: raptors to lapwings. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
Ornithological Society of New Zealand. 2019. Shore Plovers set new record. Birds New Zealand.
New Zealand Govt - Dept of Conservation - Recovery Plan
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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Shore Plover Thinornis novaeseelandiae. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/shore-plover-thinornis-novaeseelandiae on 25/11/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 25/11/2024.