Three-banded Plover (Charadrius tricollaris)

Other Names (World)
African Three-banded Plover, Three-banded Plover, Three-banded Sandplover, Treble-banded Plover, Treble-banded Sandplover, Tri-collared Plover, Tri-collared Sandplover

Family
Charadriidae (Plovers)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
Vieillot, 1818

Habitat
Clear, firm sand, mud or gravel shores for nesting, foraging and roosting, edges of inland freshwater lakes, temporary or muddy pools and rivers, streams with shingle banks, rice-paddies and the margins of artificial water-bodies. Also the coast on the edges of intertidal mudflats, sandy beaches, coastal lagoons, estuaries, tidal pools, and mangroves.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Cameroon, C�te dIvoire, Egypt, Ghana.

Population
Estimated population is 81,000 - 170,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Usually forages singly, in pairs or in small flocks of 6 - 10 up to 20 individuals (very rarely in larger groups of 40 individuals).

Food
Adult and larval aquatic and terrestrial insects, crustaceans, small molluscs and worms.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (53)...)

Three-banded Plover (Charadrius tricollaris) [XC341757]
by Tim Cockcroft from Sheyakhah Oula (near Aswan), Qism Aswan, Aswan Governorate, Egypt (call)

Three-banded Plover (Charadrius tricollaris) [XC392377]
by Ross Gallardy from P2250, Tangua, Western Cape, South Africa (call)

Nest
A simple scrape placed on sand, dry mud, shingle or on rocks close to water.

Subspecies
Form superspecies with Forbes's Plover (Charadrius forbesi) and sometimes considered conspecific.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

tricollaris Vieillot, 1818 - Ethiopia to Tanzania and Gabon, and south to South Africa. Non-breeding also around L Chad.
bifrontatus Cabanis, 1882 - Madagascar. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Madagascar Three-banded Plover (Charadrius bifrontatus).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Three-banded Plover (Charadrius tricollaris) - 10 files

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