VIDEO OF THE DAY: A Wrybill putting its bill to work 🔍

📍 Video recorded at Foxton Beach, Manawatū estuary (general area), Horowhenua District, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand by @josep_del_hoyo

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Original post on mastodon.nz

Here's a baby wrybill spotted, and filmed, on the Ashley River by Canterbury birder Steve Attwood. Wrybills are specialists of NZ's braided rivers, with a beak bent sideways to reach invertebrates hiding under rocks. Baby wrybills are more like a fluffy grey river rocks, except when they move […]