Description:

Small size, elongated and small-headed appearance, and uniform upperwing with only a very narrow wing-bar. Bill small and mainly dark. Legs yellowish or pinkish. Adult breeding has striking yellow eye-ring. Adult non-breeding and juvenile have more uniform head pattern than Common Ringed with buff forehead and supercilium.

Distribution:

Common passage migrant mainly through the central areas of Gilgit-Baltistan. Mostly prefers sparsely vegetated mountain steppe, mud flats or sandy banks of wetlands, lakes, streams and also grasslands. In the areas occurs up to 3000m.

Behavior:

Sometimes uses foot-trembling. Feeds on dry or moist surface, and occasionally in shallow water. Not especially gregarious, unlike most other smaller plovers. Mainly feeds on insects, including beetles, flies, ants, mayfly and dragonfly larvae and crickets; spiders, shrimps and other invertebrates.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

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

Seasonal Occurrence of Little 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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