New Zealand dotterel is a familiar bird of sandy east coast beaches in the northern North Island, but is sparsely distributed around much of the rest of the country. A total of 2075 northern New Zealand dotterels was counted in the 2011 breeding-season census. Southern New Zealand dotterels reached a low of 62 birds in 1992 and in 2015 there were fewer than 200 birds.
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Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
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Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
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Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
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Indian Ocean
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Latin America (Middle and South America)
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Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
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North America (includes the Caribbean)
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Northern oceans
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Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
