#0621 · 🐦 birds

Common Ringed Plover

🇳🇱 Bontbekplevier ·Charadrius hiaticula

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Paul Roberts · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Вячеслав Юсупов · CC BY 4.0
3. © Mark Kilner · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © franciscodocampo · CC BY 4.0
5. © Вячеслав Юсупов · CC BY 4.0
6. Twisk, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. De Cocksdorp, Netherlands:© R. Ziebarth · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 荷兰海牙:© Li Jianong · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Texel, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Wilhelminadorp, Nederland:© Herbert Herbinia · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The common ringed plover or ringed plover ( Charadrius hiaticula ) is a small plover that breeds in Arctic Eurasia. The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys ( kharadra , "ravine"). The specific hiaticula is Latin and has a similar meaning to the Greek term, coming from hiatus , "cleft" and -cola , "dweller" ( colere , "to dwell").

base stats

NL sightings 507iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 28,849iNaturalist observations
weight 10.9 gadult, up to
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).