Collared plover

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Collared plover

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Charadriidae
Genus: Anarhynchus
Species:
A. collaris
Binomial name
Anarhynchus collaris
(Vieillot, 1818)
Synonyms

Charadrius collaris (

protonym
)

The collared plover (Anarhynchus collaris) is a small

temperate Americas, from central Mexico south to Chile and Argentina
.

This small plover is 18 centimetres (7.1 in) long and weighs 35 grams (1.2 oz). Its upperparts are brown and the underparts white in all plumages. Adults have a black breast band. The male has a white forehead, bordered above by a black frontal bar, and below by a black stripe from the bill to the eye. The mid-crown and nape are chestnut and the legs are yellow. In flight, the flight feathers are dark with a white wing bar, and the tail shows white sides.

The female collared plover is usually very similar to the male, but some individuals can be sexed by a brown tinge to the black areas. Immature birds lack any black on the head, and the breast band is replaced by brown patches on each side of the chest. The flight call is a sharp metallic pip.

Two

sympatric Charadrius species are very similar: The snowy plover is similar in size and structure to this species, but is paler above, has dark legs, and never has a complete breastband. semipalmated plovers are larger, thicker-billed, and has a pale collar. Ironically, it is the lack of a pale collar which gives the collared plover its English language
and scientific names.

The collared plover is found on sandy coasts,

flocks
. It is usually very wary.

The timing of breeding activity varies depending on location: November to December in western Mexico,

broken-wing display to lure presumed threats away from their nest and young.[4]

Footnotes

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22693842A163622696.en
    . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-395-60237-9
    .
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8014-9600-4
    .
  4. ^ Greeney, Harold F.; Gelis, Rudolphe A.; White, Richard (2004). "Notes on breeding birds from an Ecuadorian lowland forest" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 124 (1): 28–37. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2008-03-27.

References

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