greater sand plover
charadrius leschenautlii latin

The problem is compounded in that the Middle Eastern race of the greater sand plover is the most similar to the lesser species.

This species takes fewer steps and shorter pauses than the Greater Sand Plover when feeding.

This also means that one of the subspecies of the Greater Sand Plover had to be renamed.

In all plumages, this species is very similar to Greater Sand Plover, Charadrius leschenaultii.

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

The spelling is commonly given as greater sandplover, but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is greater sand plover.

Visiting waders include Grey-tailed Tattlers, Ruddy Turnstones, Great Knots and Greater Sand Plovers.

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.

Other birds recorded from the bay in significant numbers include Black-tailed Godwits, Greater Sand Plovers, Terek Sandpipers and Beach Stone-curlews.

One which looked like a ringed plover but with a brown tinge to its less contrasty plumage turned out to be greater sand plover, which breeds on the desert plains of Mongolia.

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

A number of birds were named after Leschenault, including Greater Sand Plover 'Charadrius leschenaultii', White-crowned Forktail 'Enicurus leschenaulti' and Sirkeer Malkoha 'Phaenicophaeus leschenaultii'.

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.

A large number of rare vagrant birds have been recorded at Dawlish Warren, including Elegant Tern, Lesser Crested Tern, Long-billed Murrelet, Greater Sand Plover, Semipalmated Plover, Cream-coloured Courser and Great Spotted Cuckoo.