Kentish Plover split (1 Viewer)

[sicklebill]

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ibi.13220

Systematic revision of the ‘diminutive’ Kentish Plover (Charadriidae: Charadrius) with the resurrection of Charadrius seebohmi based on phenotypic and genetic analyses​

So if you’ve seen Kentish Plover in Sri Lanka or Southern India, one tick coming up, latest issue of Ibis.

 

[Steve Lister]

Is it as simple as that though? Won't more northerly populations move south to that area in winter?

 

[sicklebill]

Not too sure about that, the Birds of the World data suggests KP winters in SE Asia but makes no mention of migrants to S India or Sri Lanka. The e-bird data show more widespread distribution but don't distinguish taxa. Be interested to hear how widely seebohmi does disperse, I was quite taken by how distinct they were in Sri Lanka where I saw no other taxa in this group.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Not too sure about that, the Birds of the World data suggests KP winters in SE Asia but makes no mention of migrants to S India or Sri Lanka. The e-bird data show more widespread distribution but don't distinguish taxa. Be interested to hear how widely seebohmi does disperse, I was quite taken by how distinct they were in Sri Lanka where I saw no other taxa in this group.

Actually some records in eBird do distinguish taxa, although most don't. FWIW, there are more for seebohmi than the other ssp.