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.

HOODED PLOVER

183       HOODED PLOVER            Thinornis rubricollis

Australia      (183)

Also known as Hooded Dotterel. 19-23 cm. Ranges around coast of Tasmania,  across southern coast of mainland from Jervis Bay to near WA border, and found in sw corner of WA. Found on broad sandy ocean beaches with plentiful seaweed and jetsam.