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KENTISH PLOVER FACTS |
Description
The Kentish Plover is a small shorebird. The male breeding plumage is brown above with black bar on head, dark bands from the shoulder round part of the breast. breast, reddish brown on back of neck and head. The females are paler brown above and white below without the darker head and chest markings Both male and female birds have dark legs and black bill.
Size
14 cm length
Habitat
lake shores, wetlands, marshes, coastland, sand dunes, semi-arid desert, tundra
Food
insects, mollusks, crustaceans, spiders, worms
Breeding
the nest is small shallow scrape in the ground
Range
The Kentish Plover breeds in breeding areas covers Europe, Asia and Africa. It is a rare vagrant to Australia with only a few sightings on Christmas Island, Darwin and NSW.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Charadriiformes | | Family: | Charadriidae | | Genus: | Charadrius | | Species: | alexandrinus | | Common Name: | Kentish Plover |
Relatives in same Genus
Inland Dotterel (C. australis)
Double-banded Plover (C. bicinctus)
Little Ringed Plover (C. dubius)
Ringed Plover (C. hiaticula)
Greater Sand Plover (C. leschenaultii)
Lesser Sand Plover (C. mongolus)
Red-capped Plover (C. ruficapillus)
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