Redshank and ringed plovers also feed out on the flats.

Ringed plover and sanderling pass through in great numbers on their way further south.

Ringed plovers scurried in their busy way.

Common Ringed Plovers are migratory and winter in coastal areas south to Africa.

Birds using the bay as a stopping-off point for migration include the ringed plover and sanderling.

Not far away I caught, from the corner of my eye, the flickering movement as a ringed plover scudded and ran among the sea-pinks.

Bird life seen includes gadwall, great crested grebe and little ringed plover.

Shore birds include meadow pipit, rock pipit and ringed plover.

March: The Little Ringed Plovers appear and start singing.

May: First chicks appear of the Little Ringed Plover.

It is of international significance for its numbers of wintering wigeon, ringed plover and black-tailed god wit.

Birds include oystercatchers, ringed plovers, redshank and curlew.

The 75c showed a Ringed Plover and the 95c depicted a Sparrowhawk.

April: Pairs of Little Ringed Plovers in abundance.

A ringed plover looked trustingly up from her nest on the shingle, so close to the path, and did not stir as we filed quietly by.

White wing-bar separates from Little Ringed Plover.

(e) Birds Terns and ringed plovers.

This species differs from the larger Ringed Plover in leg colour, the head pattern, and the presence of a clear yellow eye-ring.

The ringed plover is described as having "eye-masking and 'obliterative' shadow-and-hole-picturing pattern".

Ringed plovers pattered at the water's edge of a muddy creek and a whimbrel whistled as it flew overhead.

Ringed Plovers can also exploit industrial sites and, for example, breed in the vicinity of the power station at Southwick.

Although only four birds had ever been recorded before 1948, Little Ringed Plovers have bred in Sussex frequently since 1950.

On the shingle beach, where the burnet rose grows, ringed plovers incubate eggs in shallow scrapes.

Ringed Plovers and Eurasian Oystercatchers lay their eggs on bare sand in the dunes.

The mudflats support wading birds and gulls, including the Ringed Plover which attempts to breed on the coastal shingle.