Breeding adult © Christoph Moning eBird S21975040 Macaulay Library ML 66209651
Juvenile © Ian Davies
Breeding adult © Jeremiah Trimble
Nonbreeding adult © Palani Andavan Balasubramanian
Breeding adult © Amit Kher
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Nonbreeding adult © Neoh Hor Kee
Breeding adult © Christoph Moning

Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius

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Identification

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Delicately built small plover with bright yellow eyerings. Note dull pinkish legs and large white forehead patch (in adults). Plumage much like bulkier Ringed Plover, but white eyebrow continues unbroken across forehead. In flight shows narrow, indistinct whitish wing stripe. Breeds on stony substrates around lakes, gravel pits, and along rivers; migrants occur in wide variety of fresh and brackish wetland habitats, but rarely out on open tidal areas. Clipped “peu” call quite distinct from call of similar Common Ringed Plover.

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