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[[Image:Oriental Plover.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|tcollins|tcollins}}<br />Fogg Dam, Northern Territories, [[Australia]]]]
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
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The Oriental Plover is a medium-sized, elegant, long-legged plover. It has plain sandy-olive upperparts with a buff white eyebrow, a buff-grey upperbreast with white underparts. It has no clear wing-bar on the upperwing and the underwing is distinctly grey brown. When breeding, the male plumage is a cream or buff-white eyebrow, face and throat, which merge into an orange-buff upper breast cut off below by a black waistband, with white underparts below. The Oriental Plover is also known as the Oriental Dotterel.
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Sandy-olive upperparts, buff white eyebrow, buff-grey upperbreast with white underparts, grey brown underwing.
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==Distribution==
 
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The Oriental Plover has been recorded in all states but most common in coastal areas and northern Australia. It breeds in Mongolia, and passes through east China on migration.
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Breeds from [[Siberia]] to [[Manchuria]] and [[Mongolia]]; winters to [[Australasia]].
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==Taxonomy==
 
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A monotypic species.
 
==Habitat==
 
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The Oriental Plover is found generally inland; in open grasslands in arid and semi-arid zones; and less often in estuarine or littoral environments. This species prefers flat inland plains, sparsely vegetated short grass with hard bare ground including claypans, playing fields, lawns and cattle camps. The Oriental Plover may move to lightly-wooded grasslands with the onset of the wet season.
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[[Image:P1070994-1.JPG|thumb|350px|right|Breeding plumage<br />Photo by {{user|BIJ|BIJ}} <br> Yeyahu NR, Beijing, [[China]], April 2010]]
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Open grasslands in arid and semi-arid zones.
 
==Behaviour==
 
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The Oriental Plover has only been recorded feeding on insects. They forage in loose flocks often with other waders and waterbirds.
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Its diet includes insects.
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==References==
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The Oriental Plover breeds during April to July in Mongolia and parts of eastern China, in barren areas like steppes and saltpans. Little is known about their breeding behaviour.
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The Oriental Plover uses artificial grasslands with a short or sparse covering of grass, such as airfields, playing fields, urban backyards, ploughed paddocks, cattle camps, saltfields, dams and reservoirs. Threats on passage (the migration route to Australia) include economic and social pressures such as wetland destruction and change, pollution and hunting.
 
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*[http://www.orientalbirdimages.org/birdimages.php?action=birdspecies&Bird_ID=1019&Bird_Image_ID=3151&Bird_Family_ID=109 View more images of this species on Orientalbirdimages]
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Anarhynchus veredus

Charadrius veredus

Photo by tcollins
Fogg Dam, Northern Territories, Australia

Identification

Sandy-olive upperparts, buff white eyebrow, buff-grey upperbreast with white underparts, grey brown underwing.

Distribution

Breeds from Siberia to Manchuria and Mongolia; winters to Australasia.

Taxonomy

A monotypic species.

Habitat

Breeding plumage
Photo by BIJ
Yeyahu NR, Beijing, China, April 2010

Open grasslands in arid and semi-arid zones.

Behaviour

Its diet includes insects.

References

Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

External Links

GSearch checked for 2020 platform.

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