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Little Ringed Plover

Thinornis dubius

Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Plovers and Lapwings
Little Ringed Plover, photographed by ALOK DAS

Photo: ALOK DAS · iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC 4.0 (licence)

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Call and song

About the Little Ringed Plover

Delicately built small plover with bright yellow eyerings. Note dull pinkish legs and large white forehead patch (in adults). Plumage much like bulkier Ringed Plover, but white eyebrow continues unbroken across forehead. In flight shows narrow, indistinct whitish wing stripe. Breeds on stony substrates around lakes, gravel pits, and along rivers; migrants occur in wide variety of fresh and brackish wetland habitats, but rarely out on open tidal areas. Clipped “peu” call quite distinct from call of similar Common Ringed Plover.

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 149 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

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