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[[Image:Mongolian_Plover.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Akiko Hidaka <br/>Photo taken: Tokyo, [[Japan]]]] | [[Image:Mongolian_Plover.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Akiko Hidaka <br/>Photo taken: Tokyo, [[Japan]]]] | ||
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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
Grey backs and white underparts. Chestnut breast, forehead and nape, black eye mask. The female is duller, and winter and juvenile birds lack the chestnut. Legs are dark and the bill black. | Grey backs and white underparts. Chestnut breast, forehead and nape, black eye mask. The female is duller, and winter and juvenile birds lack the chestnut. Legs are dark and the bill black. | ||
Revision as of 23:28, 23 July 2008
Alternative name: Mongolian Plover
- Charadrius mongolus
Identification
Grey backs and white underparts. Chestnut breast, forehead and nape, black eye mask. The female is duller, and winter and juvenile birds lack the chestnut. Legs are dark and the bill black.
Distribution
Almost worldwide.
Taxonomy
There are five races, and the large east Asian forms, C. m. mongolus and C. m. stegmanni, are sometimes given specific status as Mongolian Plover, Charadrius mongolus. If the taxonomic split is accepted, Lesser Sandplover as then defined becomes Charadrius atrifrons, including the three races atrifrons, pamirensis and schaeferi.
Habitat
Behaviour
It nests in a bare ground scrape, laying 3 eggs.
Diet includes insects, crustaceans and annelid worms.
The flight call is a hard trill.
