Siberian Sand Plover
Anarhynchus mongolus
Cairns Foreshore, FNE Qld IMG_9766 20180327 - Adult breeding plumage male. CLICK for a female losing breedingplumage 20230912.
Notes: Was Lesser Sand Plover. Slightly smaller, more hunched,
shorter slender stubby bill,
generally darker legs than
Greater Sand Plover. Usually smudgy grey flecks on flanks. In breeding,
white
forehead; male: broader, darker rufous breast-band, spreading down sides onto
foreflanks.
Adult breeding female: duller, little black on face, buff wash to
forehead, eyebrow. Adult non-
breeding: Sep–Feb. See:
HERE and HERE for discussions of
splitting of Lesser Sand Plover.
Range from Morcombe©(modified)
Cairns Foreshore, FNE Qld IMG_9679 20180327 - Adult breeding plumage 2 female, 1 male. CLICK for male losingbreeding plumage: 20230928.
Cairns Foreshore, FNE Qld IMG_0892 20191208 - non-breeding. CLICK for one with Curlew Sandpiper 20230921
Cairns North Foreshore, FNE Qld IMG_0818 20231105 - non-breeding. CLICK for another view.
Cairns Foreshore, FNE Qld IMG_9700 20180327 - 2 Adult female, male on watch, all in breeding plumage. Great Knots around.
Cairns North Foreshore, FNE Qld IMG_1988 20201118 - juvenile pulling out a worm.
Cairns North Foreshore, FNE Qld IMG_9117 20201013 - non-breeding plumage. CLICK for one there on 20231030.
Cairns Foreshore, FNE Qld IMG_3990 20210303 - From the left: Siberian Sand Plover, Greater Sand Plover, Terek Sandpiper,Greater Sand Plover.
Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_9783 20230912
Cairns Foreshore, FNE Qld IMG_5991 20200402
Cairns Foreshore, FNE Qld MVI_3056 20171004 - Non-breeding with friends