Chestnut-banded Plover (Anarhynchus pallidus) | Photos and ID

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Chestnut-banded Plover (Anarhynchus pallidus), photo 1 — Photo: (c) Ryan van Huyssteen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-banded Plover (Anarhynchus pallidus), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Brooke Smith, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-banded Plover (Anarhynchus pallidus), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Tristan Jobin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-banded Plover (Anarhynchus pallidus), photo 4 — Photo: (c) scaup, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-banded Plover (Anarhynchus pallidus), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Mahomed Desai, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-banded Plover (Anarhynchus pallidus), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Bronwen Foster, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-banded Plover (Anarhynchus pallidus), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Diogo Luiz, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-banded Plover (Anarhynchus pallidus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Chestnut-banded Plover (Anarhynchus pallidus), photo 9 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Chestnut-banded Plover (Anarhynchus pallidus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Tristan Jobin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

It grows about 15 cm tall and has proportionally long dark legs, black lores and eye-stripes leading to a black bill. The forehead, throat and belly are white, while a chestnut breast-band joins a band of same colour on the fore-crown. Back and crown are greyish brown.

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When to see the Chestnut-banded Plover

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

About the Chestnut-banded Plover

The chestnut-banded plover is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae. This species has a large range, being distributed across Southern Africa. However, it occupies a rather small area.

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Easily confused with

Mountain PloverAnarhynchus montanusThe word plover came from a Latin word pluvia which means "rain".

White-fronted PloverAnarhynchus marginatusThe average white-fronted plover weighs approximately 45-50 g, and the two sexes differ slightly in plumage coloration.

Malaysian PloverAnarhynchus peroniiThe Malaysian plover is 15 cm (5.9 in) in length.

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