Little ringed plover
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q18851
Library of congress:
sh2011001434
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Burton, N.H.K. Assessing population change of breeding Ringed plovers in the UK between 1984 and 2007, 2008.
- Avibase, 23 March 2011(Little ringed plover, Charadrius dubius, Scopoli, 1786)
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System website, 23 March 2011(Charadrius dubius, Scopoli 1786; Common name, Little ringed plover; Genus: Charadrius)
- Wikipedia, 23 March 2011:under Little ringed plover (the Little ringed plover, Charadrius dubius, is a small plover)
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Wikipedia description:
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.
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