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WetlandScrapeSmall · 51 g
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Adults distinctively marked: black cap or hood from bill, extending below eyes, merging at nape to grey-brown of back. White chin and throat. Broad black band on breast joining nape and also extending to flanks as chestnut stripe. Belly and vent white. Back and mantle grey-brown, mainly black upperwing with white trailing edge. Upper leg, including tarsal joint or "knee", red. Bill red with dark tip.
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When to see the Red-kneed Dotterel
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Red-kneed Dotterel
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Red-kneed Dotterel
The red-kneed dotterel is a species of plover in a monotypic genus in the subfamily Vanellinae. It is often gregarious and will associate with other waders of its own and different species, even when nesting. It is nomadic and sometimes irruptive.
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Easily confused with
Yellow-wattled LapwingVanellus malabaricusThese are conspicuous and unmistakable birds found in dry stony and open grassland or scrub habitats.
Eurasian DotterelEudromias morinellusThis plover is smaller and more compact than European golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria).
Grey-headed LapwingVanellus cinereusThe grey-headed lapwing is 34–37 cm long.
Side by side: Red-kneed Dotterel vs Yellow-wattled Lapwing · Eurasian Dotterel vs Red-kneed Dotterel · Grey-headed Lapwing vs Red-kneed Dotterel
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