The three-banded plover, or three-banded sandplover, is a small wader that is resident and generally sedentary across much of East Africa, southern Africa and Madagascar. It occurs mainly on inland rivers, pools, lakes and pans, frequenting their exposed shores, and is usually seen singly though it will form small flocks. It hunts by sight for insects, worms and other invertebrates, and has a sharp, whistled call. Its larger, darker-plumaged sister species, Forbes's plover, replaces it in West Africa and the moist tropics, the two sharing largely separate breeding ranges; both present a distinctively elongated profile from their proportionally long tail and wings.
Facts
Classification
System (Realm) System (Realm) Living or Extinct Scientific Name Conservation Status Body Size Band Activity Pattern Comparison
CITES Appendix Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Three-banded plover (Wikidata)
In Biome
Lake, Biomes Source Three-banded plover (Wikipedia)
River, Biomes Source Three-banded plover (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Found In
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. GBIF Species API
GBIF Species API- System (Realm): Terrestrial
- System (Realm): Marine
View the Source 3. Three-banded plover (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q121596 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
- Child Taxon Of: Charadriidae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
View the Source 4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Aves
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 32Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 32
"cites_listing":"I/II/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/C/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Animalia","phylum":"Chordata","class":"Aves","order":null,"family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Aves","language":"ES"},{"name":"Birds","language":"EN"},{"name":"Oiseaux","language":"FR"},{"name":"鸟纲","language":"ZH"}],"cites_listings":[]
5. Three-banded plover (Wikipedia)
Infobox: status
LC
In Biome: River, Habitat: River
It occurs mainly on inland rivers, pools, lakes and pans, frequenting their exposed shores.
In Biome: Lake, Habitat: Lake
It occurs mainly on inland rivers, pools, lakes and pans, frequenting their exposed shores.
View the Source6. Ecological Society of America, Ecological Archives E095-178 (Wilman et al. 2014): EltonTraits 1.0 bird functional traits (BirdFuncDat)
Ecological Society of America, Ecological Archives E095-178 (Wilman et al. 2014)Row: charadrius tricollaris
4245 Nonpasseriformes Charadriiformes Charadriidae Plovers 54 BL3 Charadrius tricollaris Three-banded Plover 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Invertebrate Ref_3 A Carolina 0 20 80 0 0 0 0 0 Ref_3 1 Jessica 0 31.2 Dunning08 1
BirdFuncDat.txt row Charadrius tricollaris, Nocturnal column
Charadrius tricollaris Three-banded Plover 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Invertebrate Ref_3 A Carolina 0 20 80 0 0 0 0 0 Ref_3 1 Jessica 0
View the Source UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Charadrius
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 1039Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 1039
"active":true,"cites_listing":"NC"
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