BirdUp · Species
Siberian Sand Plover
Anarhynchus mongolus(Pallas, 1776)
EndangeredNative
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Charadriidae
- Genus
- Anarhynchus
- Conservation
- Endangered
- Commonness
- Rare
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The Siberian sand plover is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The International Ornithologists' Union split the Tibetan sand plover from the lesser sand plover and changed its vernacular name to Siberian sand plover. The specific mongolus is Latin and refers to Mongolia, which at the time of naming referred to a larger area than the present country.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- East Russia (south and south-east Siberia)
- Non-breeding range
- Coastal Kyushu and Ryukyu Is. (=Nansei Shoto; south Japan), coastal Taiwan and Vietnam to Australia, New Guinea region, Melanesia and west Micronesia
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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