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A refusal by Auckland Council to seriously address the cat problem on the Omaha Spit could sound the death knell for the area as a breeding site for the threatened NZ dotterel/tūturiwhatu.
There are an estimated 26 breeding pairs at Omaha, which potentially means more than 200 eggs are laid in any one season – dotterel can lay up to four times in a season depending on the success of their eggs.
In both the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons, only eight chicks fledged and since then, the number has continued to decline. Only two chicks have so far fledged this season.
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