#0800 · 🐦 birds

Kentish Plover

🇳🇱 Strandplevier ·Anarhynchus alexandrinus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Jamie Chavez · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Szymon Bzoma · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jennifer Frey · CC BY 4.0
4. © djhird · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Jamie Chavez · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Zinogre · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. © USFWS Pacific Southwest Region · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

6 oz)) of the family Charadriidae that breeds on the shores of saline lakes, lagoons, and coasts, populating sand dunes, marshes, semi-arid desert, and tundra. Both male and female birds have pale plumages with a white underside, grey/brown back, dark legs and a dark bill; however, additionally the male birds also exhibit very dark incomplete breast bands, and dark markings either side of their head, therefore the...

base stats

NL sightings 24iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,495iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).