#0631 · 🐦 birds

Little Ringed Plover

🇳🇱 Kleine Plevier ·Thinornis dubius

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The little ringed plover ( Charadrius dubius ) is a small plover. 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 river valleys ( kharadra , "ravine"). The specific dubius is Latin for doubtful, since Sonnerat, writing in 1776, thought this bird might be just a variant of common ringed plover.

base stats

NL sightings 427iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 38,093iNaturalist 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).