LESSER SAND PLOVER

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

(see   644)                  LESSER SAND PLOVER              Charadrius mongolus

SINGAPORE               (52)

Common winter visitor and passage migrant occurring in large numbers on sandy beaches and mudflats, rarely inland. 20 cm. Breeds in parts of NE Siberia to Chukorta, and NE China, with disjunction populations in Central Asia and Tibetan Plateau; winters along coasts of S and E Africa, Middle East, Indian sub-continent, S China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Australia.