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A special Pied Oystercatcher

10,000 Birds

The parents spent several weeks transporting food to the chick that remained after losing one shortly after it hatched. During some shorebird counts he was observed there in July 2008, June 2009, June 2010 and then in 2011 he was observed back in Roebuck Bay on one occasion and also back with the main flock to the south.

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