Chlidonias albostriatus

Conservation challenges in mobile birds: What do we know and need to know for effective conservation of endemic inland migrants?

In New Zealand, intensive, site-based conservation management of bird species is often focused on controlling threats from invasive species at a local scale. Such management may benefit species resident within the site but may be insufficient for mobile taxa whose movements extend beyond it through annual migrations, irregular nomadic movements, or exchanges of dispersing individuals in metapopulation networks.