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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.
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