Thursday, November 6, 2014

RED-CAPPED PLOVER

Photographed on Comerong Island, NSW southern coast.
304         RED-CAPPED PLOVER               Charadrius ruficapillus

Australia          (270)

Also known as Red-capped Dotterel, Sandlark or Sandpiper. 14-16 cm. Range all over Australia and Tasmania. Found on broad sandy and shelly beaches, margins of saline wetlands and lakes, salt marshes, tidal mudflats and sandblast, adjacent dunes and shallow freshwater wetlands.



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