BirdUp · Species
Greater Sand Plover
Anarhynchus leschenaultii(Lesson, RP, 1826)
VulnerableNative
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Charadriidae
- Genus
- Anarhynchus
- Conservation
- Vulnerable
- Commonness
- Rare
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The greater sand plover is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is often given as "greater sandplover" or "greater sand-plover", but the official IOC and British Ornithologists' Union spelling is "Greater Sand Plover". The specific leschenaultii commemorates the French botanist Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. Like most other species in the genus Anarhynchus, it was until recently included in the genus Charadrius.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Inland west to east-central Asia: Turkey to east Mongolia
- Non-breeding range
- Coastal east and south Africa to south Ryukyu Is. (=Nansei Shoto; south Japan), Australia, Melanesia and west Micronesia
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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