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GrasslandScrapeMedium · 108 g
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This plover is smaller and more compact than European golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria). It has a striking whitish supercilium in all plumages and has plain wings in flight. Adults in summer are unmistakable, with a chestnut breast bordered above with white, black belly, and warm-brown back. The legs are yellow, and the short bill is black. As with the phalaropes, the female is brighter than the male. Winter birds lack the rich underpart colouration, apart from the white breast line, and are greyer above. Young birds are similar, but have a scaly appearance to their backs.
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When to see the Eurasian Dotterel
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Eurasian Dotterel
The map shades 39 countries with regular records, and 16 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Morocco, Mongolia, Luxembourg, Japan, Iceland, Serbia, Mexico, Kuwait, Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia, Kazakhstan.
About the Eurasian Dotterel
The Eurasian dotterel, also known in Europe as just dotterel, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. It is the only species placed in the genus Eudromias.
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Easily confused with
Grey-headed LapwingVanellus cinereusThe grey-headed lapwing is 34–37 cm long.
River LapwingVanellus duvauceliiThe river lapwing is 29–32 cm long.
Red-kneed DotterelErythrogonys cinctusAdults distinctively marked: black cap or hood from bill, extending below eyes, merging at nape to grey-brown of back.
Side by side: Eurasian Dotterel vs Red-kneed Dotterel · Eurasian Dotterel vs Grey-headed Lapwing · Eurasian Dotterel vs River Lapwing
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