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The diademed sandpiper-plover is 16.5 to 19 cm (6.5 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 28 to 46 g (0.99 to 1.6 oz). The sexes are alike. Their bill is black and slightly decurved. Their legs and feet are orange. The adult's face is black with a wide white supercilium than extends around the back of the head. Their crown is black, their nape bright rufous, most of their upperparts dark brownish gray, and their rump and uppertail coverts are black. The tail is black with white tips to the feathers. Voice: A diademed sandpiper-plover call given while foraging and in flight is "a clipped pic or pic-pic". What are thought to be alarm calls are "a plaintive, slightly drawn-out wheehu, a less plaintive, fairly sharp whee-u!, and a surprisingly loud screamed whistle, whEEHU!."
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When to see the Diademed Sandpiper-Plover
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Diademed Sandpiper-Plover
The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Diademed Sandpiper-Plover
The diademed sandpiper-plover or diademed plover is a Near Threatened species of bird in subfamily Charadriinae of family Charadriidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.
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Easily confused with
Inland DotterelPeltohyas australisThe inland dotterel is a medium-sized plover with a distinctive cryptic plumage.
Shore PloverThinornis novaeseelandiaeThe shore plover is about 20 cm long, brown above and white below, with a black (male) or brown (female) mask; the brown back feathers have narrow pale fringes, giving a scaly appearance at close range.
Caspian PloverAnarhynchus asiaticusThis plover is slightly larger than ringed plover, and it recalls greater sandplover and lesser sandplover in appearance.
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