Description:

Slightly larger robust plover with prominent breast-band and white hind-collar. Adult breeding has orange legs and bill-base (legs duller in non-breeding, more olive-yellow in juvenile; bill mainly dark). Non-breeding and juvenile have prominent whitish supercilium and forehead compared with Little Ringed.

Distribution:

Rare passage migrant through eastern Gilgit-Baltistan, absent from Ghizer, Hunza, Gilgit and Diamer. Mostly prefers sparsely vegetated mud flats or sandy banks of wetlands, lakes, streams and also grasslands. In the areas occurs up to 3000m.

Behavior:

Sometimes uses foot-trembling. Typically in small flocks of up to 50 birds. Forages by day and night, often on tidal flats, with a peck rate of up to almost one per second. Feeds on small crustaceans, molluscs, polychaete worms, isopods, amphipods, various insects (e.g. ants, beetles, flies and their larvae) and millipedes.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Common Ringed Plover in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Common Ringed Plover

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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