BirdUp · Species
Common Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticulaLinnaeus, 1758
Least Concern
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Charadriidae
- Genus
- Charadrius
- Conservation
- Least Concern
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The common ringed plover, great ringed plover or ringed plover is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae. It breeds across much of northern Eurasia, as well as Greenland.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Inland high Arctic Palearctic from Greenland to north-east Siberia; to temperate Europe
- Non-breeding range
- To south Europe and Mediterranean, Africa, Middle East; rare vagrant to Australia (primarily WA and TAS)
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
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