This is a juvenile pied stilt/poaka (Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus). The black neck and back of the head of the adult develops as the bird matures, but the soft colours of the juvenile are rather endearing, in a sleeping-without-taking-your-mascara-off kind of way.
Young poaka
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