Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)

The ringed plover is a small shorebird with a ring on its neck. In British English, these shorebirds are called as waders as they wade and look their preys in the mud. The base of its beak is orange as well as its legs. It has white underparts and a brown back. The face, neck and breast of the ringed plover is white. It has black eye masks and a brown cap. Its feet are slightly webbed.

The plovers are known to find preys by eye-sight. Because they find their preys by sight, their hunts are often disturbed or hindered at night by lack of light. When the temperature is low, their preys stop moving thus making harder for the plovers to find them. Strong winds can dry the sands. The plovers are known to use foot to simulate tide to induce their preys to come up.

Winthrop, MA
2010-09-06

The ringed plover can often be found near water forming large colonies.

Other Charadriidae species:

Acorn Woodpecker• American Coot• American Crow• American Robin• American White Ibis• American White Pelican• Anhinga• Audubon's Warbler• Black Phoebe• Black-Capped Chickadee• Blue Jay• Boat-Tailed Grackle• Brewer's Blackbird• Brown Pelican• Bufflehead• Canada Goose• Chestnut-Backed Chickadee• Collared-Dove• Common Gallinule• Common Goldeneye• Common Grackle• Double-Crested Cormorant• Downy Woodpecker• European Starling• Fox Sparrow• Glossy Ibis• Golden-Crowned Sparrow• Graylag Goose• **Great Blue Heron• Great Egret• Herring Gull• House Sparrow• **Killdeer• Least Bittern• Least Sandpiper• Lesser Goldfinch• Limpkin• Lincoln's Sparrow• Mallard• Mourning Dove• Northern Cardinal• Northern Mockingbird• Oak Titmouse• Osprey• Palm Warbler• Pied-Billed Grebe• Purple Finch• Red-Bellied Woodpecker• Red-Breasted Nuthatch• Red-Winged Blackbird• Ring-Billed Gull• Ringed Plover• Ruby-Crowned Kinglet• Sanderling• Sandhill Crane• Semipalmated Sandpiper• Sharp-Shinned Hawk• Short-Tailed Hawk• Snowy Egret• Song Sparrow• Spotted Towhee• Steller's Jay• Tricolored Heron• Trumpeter Swan• Tufted Titmouse• Turkey Vulture• Western Grebe• Western Gull• Western Meadowlark• Western Scrub Jay• **Western Swamphen• White-Breasted Nuthatch• White-Crowned Sparrow• Wild Turkey• Willet• Wood Stork