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  • ‘Sumatran Tiger - Intensity’
  • 'Africa Dozing - White Rhino'
  • 'Africa Dozing - Lion'
  • 'Hastening - Paradise Shelduck Ducklings'
  • ‘Intimate - Pīwakawaka’
  • ‘Morning Light - Fantail’
  • ‘Reflections - Red-billed Gull’
  • ‘Intimate - Akiaki’
  • ‘Reflections - Juvenile Black Swan’
  • 'Intimate – Tūturiwhatu’
  • ‘North Island Brown Kiwi – In the Burrow’
  • 'North Island Brown Kiwi – New Arrival’
  • 'Reflections - Australasian Crested Grebes'
  • ‘Intimate - Pukeko’
  • ‘Black Vignette – Kingfisher 1’
  • ‘Black Vignette – Goldfinch 1’
  • ‘Intimate - Kereru’
  • 'Intimate - Tui'
  • 'Fantail Study 1'
  • 'Fantail Studies 2' (detail)
  • 'Short clawed Asian Otter Study 1'
  • 'Short clawed Asian Otter Study 1-1' (detail)
  • 'Ferns on Black - Moko 1'
  • 'Ferns on Black - Moko 2'
  • 'Rocks - Stratification'
  • 'Camelia'
  • 'Taranaki Footfills'
  • 'Brown Kiwi - Dusk'
  • 'Fantail Study 1' (detail)
  • 'Superb Fairy Wren - Wine Larking'
  • 'Fantail Study 1'
'Intimate – Tūturiwhatu’

'Intimate – Tūturiwhatu’

Painting description

Close-up of a Northern New Zealand Dotterel in non-breeding plumage.

About the bird

These endangered shore birds change colour in the breeding season. Another name it was commonly known by is the Red-breasted Plover. Its Maori names include Tūturiwhatu, Pukunui, and Kūkuruatu.

Artist statement

‘I am lucky enough to have encountered these birds in the wild. I treasure dawn walks taken along beaches wrapped in stillness, where the shape of a dotterel emerges from the sandy shore.’

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