White-fronted Plover

Charadrius marginatus - Gravelot à front blanc Pluvier à front blanc

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Charadriiformes

  • Family
    :

    Charadriidés

  • Genus
    :

    Charadrius

  • Species
    :

    marginatus

Descriptor

Vieillot, 1818

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 18 cm
  • Wingspan
    : -
  • Weight
    : 42 à 55 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Gravelot à front blanc
adult
Gravelot à front blanc
adult

White-fronted Plover (Charadrius marginatus) is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.

Subspecific information 4 subspecies

  • Charadrius marginatus marginatus (sw Angola to sw South Africa)
  • Charadrius marginatus mechowi (Africa south of the Sahara south to n Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe and n Mozambique)
  • Charadrius marginatus arenaceus (s Mozambique to s South Africa)
  • Charadrius marginatus tenellus (Madagascar)

Foreign names

  • Gravelot à front blanc,
  • Chorlitejo frentiblanco,
  • borrelho-de-testa-branca,
  • Weißstirn-Regenpfeifer,
  • fehérhomlokú lile,
  • Vale Strandplevier,
  • Corriere frontebianca,
  • vitpannad strandpipare,
  • Strandlo,
  • kulík bieločelý,
  • kulík proměnlivý,
  • Sandpræstekrave,
  • hietatylli,
  • Vaalstrandkiewiet,
  • corriol de front blanc,
  • sieweczka białoczelna,
  • Белолобый зуёк,
  • シロビタイチドリ,
  • 白额沙鸻,
  • 白額沙鴴,

Voice song and cries

Gravelot à front blanc
adult plum. post breeding

Habitat

Gravelot à front blanc
adult plum. breeding

Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls), Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha), Permanent Saline, Brackish or alkaline Lakes ; Marine Neritic : Estuaries ; Marine Intertidal : Rocky Shoreline, Sandy Shoreline and/or Beaches, Sand Bars, Spits, Etc, Shingle and/or Pebble Shoreline and/or Beaches, Mud Flats and Salt Flats, Tidepools ; Marine Coastal/Supratidal : Coastal Brackish/Saline Lagoons/Marine Lakes ; Artificial/Aquatic and Marine : Salt Exploitation Sites

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

QRcode Gravelot à front blanc
published: - Updated: 09-01-2013
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