GREATER SAND PLOVER

Subspecies leschenaultii, March 2017

(*   684)              GREATER SAND PLOVER               Charadrius leschenaultii

SRI LANKA             684

Found along seashores, lagoons, mudflats. 22-25 cm. Fairly rare winter migrant to lowland coastal areas; more often in dry zone.

GREATER SAND PLOVER

Photographed on Chilli Beach, Queensland October 2015

684          GREATER SAND PLOVER          aradrius leschenaultii 

Australia          (526)

Also known as Large Sand Dotterell or Large Sand Plover. 20-25 cm, wingspan 53-60 cm. Found on wide, sandy or shelly beaches; sandpits, tidal mudflats, reefs, sand-cays, mangroves, salt marsh, dune wilderness, bare paddocks, seldom far inland. Range: breeds (in three races) from Turkey to s. Siberia; regular summer migrant to Aust., Tas., commonest in nw WA, where fpcks of thousands.