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Three-banded plover

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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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Insectivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
System (Realm)
Marine 2
Living or Extinct
Yes 3
Scientific Name
Charadrius tricollaris 3
Conservation Status
Least Concern 4
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Charadriidae, Taxa
Source Three-banded plover (Wikidata)
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Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. GBIF Species API
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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
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4. Three-banded plover (Wikipedia)
Speciesbox infobox, conservation status parameter
Quote, Speciesbox infobox, conservation status parameter
status = LC
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