Over a quarter of the world population of wrybills at Lake Ellesmere now

With recent floods wrybills have grouped up en masse at Lake Ellesmere with in excess of 1200 birds at the lake now- enforcing the importance of Lake Ellesmere as a Wetland of International Importance

Rangitata floods

River flows during the wrybill monitoring season 2010- fortunately about 70% of the breeding effort was completed prior to the floods