Long-billed Plover (Charadrius placidus)

Medium small. Chunky with longish, fine, black bill. Sexes alike.

Adults: Breeding: Forehead, white. Eyestripe, from lores to ear, dark brown. Forecrown, black. Eyebrow, short, white, behind eye only. Eye, dark brown. Eyering, pale-yellow and narrow. Crown, hind neck, back, rump, uppertail coverts, wing coverts, greyish-brown, greater coverts tipped white forming a conspicuous wing bar. A narrow collar, white, and bordered behind by black, which continues forming a narrow black breast band, with streaked dark brown bend of wing. Tail, brown, with a white tip and black subterminal band. Throat, breast, belly, undertail coverts, underwing, white. Bill, black. Legs, dull ochre to yellow. Non-breeding: Black of head replaced with dark brown. Eyebrow, buff. Forehead, buff. Breastband narrower and browner or mixed black and brown. Bill, black. Legs, dull ochre to yellow.

Immatures: Similar to non-breeding adult, but paler.

Other Names (World)
Long-billed Plover, Long-billed Ringed Plover

Family
Charadriidae (Plovers)

Size
19 - 21 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gray & Gray, 1863

Habitat
Mainly rivers with gravel or rocky bars and banks. Wetlands and wet fields on migration.

Range (Guide)

Cambodia, China (mainland) (B) (NB), India (NB), Japan (B) (NB), Laos (NB), Malaysia (NB), Mongolia (NB), Myanmar (NB), Nepal, North Korea (B) (NB) (P), Russia (Asian) (B), South Korea (NB), Taiwan (China) (NB), Thailand, Vietnam.

Vagrant to Bangladesh (NB), Bhutan (NB), Brunei Darussalam (NB), Hong Kong (China) (NB), Indonesia (NB), Sri Lanka (NB).

Russian Far East, east-central to north-eastern China and Japan. Winters from eastern Nepal and north-eastern India to northern Indochina, southern China, southern Korea and Japan.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 1,000 - 25,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (10)...)

Long-billed Plover (Charadrius placidus) [XC109974]
by Grant Fisher from Foping town, Shaanxi, China (call)

Long-billed Plover (Charadrius placidus) [XC266280]
by Gerbenth from Khorolskiy rayon, Primorskiy kray, Russian Federation (flight call)

Subspecies
Has on occasion been considered a subspecies of Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula); sometimes included within the Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula) superspecies.

No subspecies.

Similar Species
Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Smaller. Plumper and shorter. Eyestripe is black. White collar is wider. White wing bar is more prominent. Tail has white tip and black subterminal band.

Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius)
Much smaller. Has a smaller head. Eyestripe is black. Has a narrow supercilium that meet on top of the head. Lacks a white wing bar. Bill is shorter and lower mandible has orange base. Eyering is bright yellow.

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References
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Files:

JPG files for Long-billed Plover (Charadrius placidus) - 10 files

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