lesser sand plover
charadrius mongolus latin

In all plumages, it is very similar to Lesser Sand Plover, Charadrius mongolus.

The Lesser Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus) is a small wader in the plover family of birds.

Britain's third Lesser Sand Plover, a breeding-plumaged male of the race mongolus occurred at Keyhaven Marshes, Hampshire in July.

The length of the bill is another distinguishing feature with the Lesser Sand Plover generally having a shorter bill compared to a Greater Sand Plover.

The Lesser Sand Plover's food is insects, crustaceans and annelid worms, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups.

The spelling is commonly given as Lesser Sandplover, but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is Lesser Sand Plover.

One of the most numerous wintering shorebird is the Lesser Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus), which occurs in flocks of many thousands along the outer coast of the delta.

The Lesser Sand Plover is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.

Size is one of the factors distinguishing a Lesser Sand Plover from a Greater of the species with the Lesser Sand Plover being slightly smaller.

Other waders for which the site is at least sometimes important include Black-tailed Godwits, Greaters and Lesser Sand Plovers, Grey Plovers, Terek Sandpipers, and Far Eastern Curlews.

The colour of the legs in a Lesser Sand Plover is generally darker ranging from black to grey while it is much paler ranging from grey to yellowish for Greater Sand Plovers.

More than 1% of the known Australian populations of four wader species, Pacific Golden Plover, Grey Plover, Lesser Sand Plover and Ruddy Turnstone, spend the summer around Mud Islands.

From September to March, migratory shorebirds such as Ruddy Turnstone, Grey-tailed Tattler, Wandering Tattler, Bar-tailed Godwit, Pacific Golden Plover and Lesser Sand Plover can be seen foraging on the reef flat at low tide.

Some of the species that can be found during the summer months include the red-necked stint and the red knot as well as sandpipers, Grey Plovers, Red capped plovers, Lesser Sand Plovers, Grey-tailed tattlers, whimbrels, common greenshanks, Yellow-billed Spoonbill, White-faced Heron and stilts.

In all plumages, it is very similar to Lesser Sand Plover, Charadrius mongolus.

The Lesser Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus) is a small wader in the plover family of birds.

One of the most numerous wintering shorebird is the Lesser Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus), which occurs in flocks of many thousands along the outer coast of the delta.

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.

LESSER SANDPLOVER or MONGOLIAN PLOVER Charadrius mongolus.