Kentish Plover

Latin Name: 
Charadrius alexandrinus
Category: 
Size: 
17cm
Description: 

A rather dumpy wader with black bill and blackish legs. Like all small plovers it has sandy-brown upperparts, crown and cheeks, small dark patches on breast, and a white collar. Breeding plumage male has chestnut rear crown and black forehead, cheeks and breastsides. Strong white wingbars and edges to tail and rump.

Habitat: 
Inhabits coastal sandflats, salt pans but inland on river sand bars, open lakeshores and drying floods.
Distribution: 
Fairly common winter visitor and local breeding resident to most coasts and throughout lowlands.
Call: 
Call Description: 
A soft dri…ip… and a whi…it alarm on ground. In flight an abrupt tit…tit.