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Charadrius marginatus

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Location: Winklespruit, South Africa

[edit] Identification

16-18 cm. Medium brown upperparts, white hind neck collar, white forehead extending back in a conspicuous wedge between the eye and the crown, black line through the eye, black frontal bar to the crown, white underparts with a variable cream or buff breast; there may be rufous patches on the breast sides. The bill is black and the legs yellowish-grey.

[edit] Distribution

Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies¹

• C. m. mechowi - Africa s of Sahara to n Angola, Botswana and Mozambique
• C. m. marginatus - S Angola to sw Cape Province
• C. m. arenaceus - S Mozambique to s Cape Province
• C. m. tenellus - Madagascar

[edit] Habitat

Sandy beaches.

[edit] Behaviour

The eggs are laid directly into the sand and may be buried.

The diet includes insects, crustaceans and worms.

[edit] References

1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2008. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019

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