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Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola
- In flight from above Photographer : © Amar-Singh HSS Location : Kuala Baram, Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia Date :
10 September 2013 English synonyms: Gray Plover, Black-bellied Plover, Bullhead, Silver Plover, Beetle-Head, Black-Breast, Bottle-Head, Bullhead, Chuckly-Head, Gump, Hollow-Head, May Cock, Mud Plover, Owl-Head, Ox-Eye, Pilot, Whistling Plover Bird Family : Charadriinae - Plovers, dotterels & lapwings Bird Group : CICONIIFORMES Red Data Status : Least Concern Remarks : Habitat: Prawn farming site offering a ‘mud flat’ environment,
adjacent to the beach, near entry to large river mouth
The location is on the ‘eastern’ side of the
Kuala Baram river mouth near the Brunei border. I could not reach the
beach but watched at a large prawn farming site adjacent to the beach.
Some ponds were drained offering a ‘mud flat’ environment and there
were numerous waders here, all different from the first site.
Saw this Grey Plover in breeding plumage feeding on the mud flats.
Note the classical black axillaries (under wing patch) in flight to
differentiate from the Golden Plover.
Hayman, Marchant, Prater (Shorebirds: Identification Guide to the
Waders of the World) state that breeding adult females “Underparts
have browner tinge and many white flecks. Underparts sometimes
browner.” So this could be a female. -
Amar
Taxonomic Notes :
Select an image:
1. Grey Plover >> Non-breeding
2. Grey Plover >> Non-breeding adult
3. Grey Plover >> Beginning to assume non-breeding plumage
4. Grey Plover >> In flight
5. Grey Plover >> Non-breeding
6. Grey Plover >> Landing
7. Grey Plover >> Non-breeding
8. Grey Plover
9. Grey Plover >> Beginning to assume non-breeding plumage
10. Grey Plover >> In flight from below
11. Grey Plover >> In flight from above
12. Grey Plover >> Adult almost in full breeding plumage
13. Grey Plover >> Assuming breeding plumage
14. Grey Plover >> Comparison
15. Grey Plover >> Adults in breeding plumage
16. Grey Plover
17. Grey Plover >> Non-breeding
18. Grey Plover >> In flight
19. Grey Plover
20. Grey Plover
21. Grey Plover >> Non-breeding
22. Grey Plover >> Adult in breeding plumage
23. Grey Plover >> In flight
24. Grey Plover >> Adult in breeding plumage
25. Grey Plover >> In flight
26. Grey Plover >> Non-breeding plumage
27. Grey Plover >> Underwing
28. Grey Plover >> Non-breeding
29. Grey Plover >> Assuming breeding plumage
30. Grey Plover >> Landing
31. Grey Plover >> In flight
32. Grey Plover >> Adult
33. Grey Plover >> 1st summer
34. Grey Plover >> Non-breeding
35. Grey Plover >> Non-breeding
36. Grey Plover >> Winter (non-breeding)
37. Grey Plover >> Non-breeding
38. Grey Plover >> Non-breeding plumage
39. Grey Plover >> Adult in breeding plumage
40. Grey Plover >> Adult in breeding plumage
41. Grey Plover >> Immature in flight
42. Grey Plover >> Juvenile
43. Grey Plover >> Juvenile in flight
44. Grey Plover >> Adult assuming breeding plumage
45. Grey Plover >> Adult assuming breeding plumage
46. Grey Plover >> In flight from above
47. Grey Plover >> 1st summer
48. Grey Plover >> Adult non-breeding
49. Grey Plover >> Adult non-breeding
50. Grey Plover >> Adult moulting into non-breeding plumage
51. Grey Plover
52. Grey Plover >> Adult in breeding plumage
53. Grey Plover >> Adult moulting into breeding plumage
