
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Phillips, RE 
T1  - Behaviour and Systematics of New Zealand Plovers
JF  - Emu
JO  - EMU
Y1  - 1980
VL  - 80
IS  - 4
SP  - 177
EP  - 197
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/MU9800177 
N2  - Courtship behaviour and related aspects of reproduction in four endemic and a fifth self-introduced species of plover in New Zealand are described and used to suggest that the monotypic genus Anarhynthus be merged with Charadrius and that Charadrius is also the proper genus for obscurus. The close similarities between patterns of courtship behaviour of bicinctus, obscurus, frontalis and alexandrinus support Bock's (1958) grouping of them together and further indicate that they are a closely related subgroup within the genus Charadrius. 
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