Red-kneed Dotterel
Erythrogonys cinctus
Estern Treatment Plant, Werribee, SC Vic IMG_7739 20241201 - CLICK for one on 20231107 Cairns Foreshore, FNE Qld.
Notes: Elegant. Pinkish tarsus, heel ("knee"), & tibia.
Black hood, nape, & breast-band – merging
to chestnut
streaks along flank. Black tip to reddish bill. Hind toe – not
so much a plover as a
lapwing. Freshwater wetlands, swamps;
wading in shallows. Nomadic following rain.
Range from Morcombe©
Rossiter Road, Carrum, Melbourne, S Vic IMG_3373 20210122
Edithvale Wetland, S Vic IMG_4004 20191228 - CLICK for another pic there.
Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_1701 20190430
Cairns Foreshore, FN Qld IMG_9861 20191204 - Immature. CLICK to see with Red-necked Stint.
Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_1265 20231107 - CLICK for another pic.
Derby, NW WA IMG_0239 20180828 - Immature, Adult. CLICK for another pic of adult.
Rossiter Road, Carrum, Melbourne, S Vic IMG_3415 20210122
Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_1310 20231107
Nimalaica Claypan, Cape Levique, NW WA MVI_3279+3289 20180918