Birds of the World - Charadrius


Hooded Plover (Charadrius cucullatus) Range: AU: coastal and inland sw WA and coastal sc SA to se NSW (sc, se Australia) and Tasmania Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
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Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius jerdoni) Range: PAL, OR: widespread inland subarctic to tropical zones: Eurasia, Indian subcontinent, se Asia, Philippines, New Guinea and Bismarck Arch. Pak Thale, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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Forbes's Plover (Charadrius forbesi) Range: AF: inland Guinea to South Sudan, Zambia and Angola Mole National Park, Ghan, Ghana
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Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Range: PAL: inland high Arctic Palearctic from Greenland to ne Siberia; to temperate Europe

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Black-fronted Dotterel (Charadrius melanops) Range: AU: inland Australia, Tasmania and North and South Is. (New Zealand) Crusoe Reservoir, Kangaroo Flat, Victoria, Australia
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Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) Male Near Threatened Range: NA: inland se Alberta to sw Ontario (sc Canada) and Great Lakes s to e Colorado and n Kansas; coastal s Newfoundland (e Canada) to North Carolina Sauble Beach, Ontario, Canada
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Shore Plover (Charadrius novaeseelandiae) Range: AU: South East I. (=Rangatira, Chatham Is., e of South I.); reintroduced to New Zealand satellites Chatham Island, New Zealand
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Long-billed Plover (Charadrius placidus) Range: PAL: riverine temperate se Siberia, Hokkaido to Kyushu (n to s Japan), n, c Korean Pen., ne, ec China; disjunctly ne India
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Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) Range: NA: inland high Arctic to extreme ne Russia and subarctic Alaska and Canada: e Chukotskiy Pen. (ne Russia), c, e Aleutian Is., all Alaskan mainland and nw British Columbia to Banks and Baffin is., s to w James Bay, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia (nw to ne, se C John Lloyd State Park, Florida, USA
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A small common plover; Orange bill and black chest band distinctive.
Front view, searching for food.


Three-banded Plover (Charadrius tricollaris bifrontatus) Range: AF: inland ne to s Africa and Madagascar Sacred Lake, Madagascar
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Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus vociferus) Range: NA, MA, SA: inland subarctic to temperate North America to Central America; coastal Ecuador to Peru John LLoyd State Park, Florida,
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Northern migrant. A medium sized plover often found inland not necessarily near water. There is also a resident population from south Colombia to Peru on the Pacific coast.