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/
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Classification
System (Realm) System (Realm) Living or Extinct Scientific Name Conservation Status Connections
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Source Three-banded plover (Wikidata)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Djibouti, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Eritrea, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Kenya, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Madagascar, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Mozambique, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: South Africa, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Tanzania, found in there.
Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. GBIF Species API
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. Three-banded plover (Wikipedia)
Speciesbox infobox, conservation status parameterQuote, Speciesbox infobox, conservation status parameter
status = LC
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