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HOODED DOTTEREL FACTS |
Description
Upper body brown-grey, underparts white. Head black, back of neck black with a wide white patch. Red ring around eye. Body up to 23 cm long.
Hooded Plovers are locally nomadic; they do not migrate to other countries. They feed on insects, crabs and small bivalve molluscs. There are two subspecies of Hooded Plover, both of which are threatened.
Author credit: Museum Victoria Sciences Staff / Museum Victoria
Habitat
Ocean sandy beaches and coastal lakes.
Food
Carnivore
Range
Southern mainland Australia and Tasmania.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Charadriiformes | | Family: | Charadriidae | | Genus: | Thinornis | | Species: | rubricollis | | Common Name: | Hooded dotterel |
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