Oriental Plover - BirdForum Opus

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Anarhynchus veredus

Charadrius veredus

Photo by tcollins
Fogg Dam, Northern Territories, Australia

Identification

Sandy-olive upperparts, buff white eyebrow, buff-grey upperbreast with white underparts, grey brown underwing.

Distribution

Breeds from Siberia to Manchuria and Mongolia; winters to Australasia.

Taxonomy

A monotypic species.

Habitat

Breeding plumage
Photo by BIJ
Yeyahu NR, Beijing, China, April 2010

Open grasslands in arid and semi-arid zones.

Behaviour

Its diet includes insects.

References

Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

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