Summary ⁶

The Greater Sand Plover (Charadrius leschenaultii) is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as "Greater Sandplover" or "Greater Sand-Plover", but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is "Greater Sand Plover".

Status in egypt ⁷

Winter visitor, regular passage visitor and migrant breeder?

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Charles Lam, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/49296659@N00/3484015373
2. (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://csdb.ioz.ac.cn/images/Upload_images/Animalia/Chordata/Aves/Charadriiformes/Charadriidae/Charadrius/leschenaultii/4DC819E0-C0B6-47D1-B0F7-0F8D266CBD89.jpg
3. (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://pngbirds.myspecies.info/sites/pngbirds.myspecies.info/files/CharLesc.jpg
4. (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://pngbirds.myspecies.info/sites/pngbirds.myspecies.info/files/CharLesc_0.jpg
5. (c) Donald Macauley, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Flickr_-_don_macauley_-_Greater_Sand_Plover_3.jpg
6. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charadrius_leschenaultii
7. (c) Bibliotheca Alexandrina, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/17572246

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Animal Diversity Web
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• VertNet
• Xeno-canto

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