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Alternative name: Diademed Sandpiper-Plover

Photo by Stanley Jones
Ticlio Pass, Peru, September, 2009

Phegornis mitchellii

[edit] Identification

• Brown upperparts
• Buff underparts with fine barring
• Black head
• White band around the crown
• Rufous nape
• Long, thin, downcurved bill
• In flight, wings look rounded

Photo by megan perkins
Marcapomacocha, Peru, December 2005

[edit] Distribution

South America: found from southern Peru to western Argentina and Chile.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1]. ==Habitat==. High elevation bogs, shallow gravel streams, freshwater lakes, sedges and grasses.

[edit] Behaviour

Quite shy and very fast moving

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Arthur Grosset
3. Surfbirds

• List of references

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