Southern New Zealand dotterel
| Southern New Zealand dotterel | |
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| Southern New Zealand dotterel on its breeding grounds on hills of Tin Range in Stewart Island | |
Nationally Critical (NZ TCS) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Charadriidae |
| Genus: | Charadrius |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | C. o. obscurus
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| Trinomial name | |
| Charadrius obscurus obscurus Gmelin, 1789
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The southern New Zealand dotterel or southern red-breasted plover (Charadrius obscurus obscurus) is a critically endangered subspecies of the New Zealand dotterel, a shorebird endemic to New Zealand. The subspecies was once widespread across the South Island, but now breeds almost exclusively on Stewart Island.