Wrybill
Anarhynchus frontalis
- Vulnerable
- Card rarity: Rare
- Birds
The wrybill or wrybill plover is a species of plover endemic to New Zealand. It is the only species of bird in the world with a beak that is bent sideways in one direction, always to the right. A 2015 study found it to be within the Charadrius clade, with other New Zealand plovers its closest relatives; the nearest being the New Zealand dotterel or New Zealand plover, and then the double-banded plover or banded dotterel.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Charadriidae
- Genus
- Anarhynchus