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	Plovers: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
		Plovers are also known to use a technique called “foot-patting.” The bird patters its feet on loose sand or mud causing the small organisms on which it feeds to rise to the surface.
		During the winter, all four plovers have the typical protective coloration of an animal that is preyed upon, that of a dark back and a light belly.
		When the lesser golden plover is in flight, it appears all dark, unlike the fl-bellied plover which flashes dark and white.
	www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/bird/plovers.php (1151 words)

	Rare Birds in Lincolnshire - Lesser Sandplover
		The debate over the specific identification of the sand plover found at Rimac by Mike and Steve Tarrant and Barrie Clarkson quickly suggested that the bird was not a Greater Sand Plover but in fact Britain’s second ever Lesser Sand Plover.
		The individuals nesting on the shingle ridge, which attacked the Sand plover on the 12th would of course be nominate birds.
		Similarly Millington 1988 proposed ratios of 1.59 to 1 for Greater and 1.85 to 1.99 to 1 for Lesser.
	www.lincsbirdclub.co.uk /rare_birds/sandplover.htm (760 words)

	Lesser Sand Plover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lesser Sand Plover, Charadrius mongolus, is a small wader in the plover family of birds.
		The Lesser Sand Plover's food is insects, crustaceans and annelid worms, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups.
		The Lesser Sand Plover is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongolian_Plover (425 words)

	sociology - Plover
		Plovers are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae.
		Plovers are found throughout the world, and are characterised by relatively short bills.
		Food is insects, worms or other invetebrates, depending on habitat, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Plover (116 words)

	Greater Sand Plover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Greater Sand Plover, Charadrius leschenaultii, is a small wader in the plover family of birds.
		The problem is compounded in that the Middle Eastern race of the greater sand plover is the most similar to the lesser species.
		The Greater Sand Plover is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_Sand_Plover (335 words)

	Ocean Wanderers Guide to Shorebirds - Snowy (Kentish) Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In all plumages, Snowy Plovers are readily separated from Ringed and Semipalmated Plovers by lack of an obvious dark breast band.
		It should be kept in mind however that juvenile Ringed/Semipalmated Plovers as well as some some basic plumaged adults show a broken band, although the remaining parts on the flanks are darker and broader than Snowy Plover.
		Basic-plumaged and juvenile Chestnut-banded Plovers are paler and greyer.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /SnowyPlover.html (350 words)

	ID Issues
		Separating Greater Charadrius leschenaultii and Lesser Sand Plovers Charadrius mongolus is far from simple, especially since the various subspecies of the two show some overlap in morphology.
		On the primary bars, the Lesser's wing bar has parallel sides and is reasonably narrow, whereas the Greater's wingbar has unparallel sides and gets wider towards the wing tip, thus giving a far more prominent appearance.
		Lesser's uppertail pattern generally appears uniform brown with maybe some small indications of a white edge to the tail.
	www.zestforbirds.co.za /sandplover.html (507 words)

	DEC \| NSW threatened species - Lesser Sand-plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Lesser Sand Plover is distinguished from the Greater Sand Plover by a smaller body with a more upright stance, more compact appearance and dark grey, rather than greenish legs.
		Elements of this plumage may be visible in some Australian birds just after arrival in spring or prior to departure in autumn, and in some overwintering birds.
		The Lesser Sand Plover breeds in central and north eastern Asia, migrating further south for winter.
	www.threatenedspecies.environment.nsw.gov.au /tsprofile/profile.aspx?id=10162 (575 words)

	Piping Plover Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The piping plover is a small sand colored shorebird with orange legs.
		The piping plover is classified as threatened throughout it's entire North American range and as endangered in Maryland.
		Piping plover populations have been reduced due to increased development and recreational uses of beaches along the Atlantic coast.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /wildlife/pplover.html (203 words)

	Sandgrouse - Turkey bird sightings
		An adult Lesser Sand Plover Charadrius mongolus in nonbreeding plumage was reported from the lake shore at Arin Gölü (north of Lake Van) on 18 September.
		Five Red-wattled Plover Hoplopterus indicus were recorded 5km north of Cizre on 30 June and three were on River Tigris at Cizre on 27 July.
		Three Sociable Plover Chettusia gregaria were at Hürmetçi Marshes, Kayserí on 29 September and 3 October; there have been rather few records of late (none between 1995 and 2002).
	www.osme.org /sand271/turkey.html (680 words)

	Original Artwork: Michael Warren: Lesser Sand Plover
		Plovers are small to medium-sized birds found in a myriad of habitats, including along beaches, river or pond banks, in open fields or dark pastures.
		The Sand Plover breeds primarily in eastern Asia, from Siberia to the Himalayas.
		This artwork was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the Republic of the Marshall Islands 65¢ Lesser Sand Plover stamp issued April 24, 1992.
	www.artworkoriginals.com /EB5TCEEE.htm (295 words)

	Non-bird: AOU Checklist 45th Supplement Summary
		[The separation of the Lesser complex may present a field challenge.] For a good treatment of Canada Goose subspecies (prior to the release of this supplement), check Angus Wilson's web site at...
		The common name Mongolian Plover is now Lesser Sand-plover, to agree with modern Old World literature.
		Lesser Whitethroat is added to the checklist, based on the record from Gambell, AK.
	lists.envirolink.org /pipermail/mich-chat/2004-July/000167.html (530 words)

	Oriental Bird Club Image Database : Lesser Sand Plover » Charadrius mongolus
		After a strenuous battle to pull the worm out of its hole, the plover only succeeded in breaking off the tip of the worm, leaving the rest still firmly encased in its burrow.
		Lesser Sand Plover >> Male in breeding plumage
		Lesser Sand Plover >> Male in post-breeding plumage
	www.orientalbirdimages.org /search.php?action=searchresult&Bird_ID=1021 (215 words)

	Birding Community E-Bulletin
		On 17 September, a unusual medium-sized plover was found at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, in Wakulla County, in northwest Florida.
		The Lesser-Sand Plover (formerly called the Mongolian Plover) is a medium-sized plover with gray upperparts, white underparts, a bright rusty breast-band and nape.
		The plover was observed at least through the morning of 21 September, to the delight of many birders who studied it.
	www.refugenet.org /birding/octSBC05.html (3454 words)

	Plovers in Hampshire (Charadrius)
		Described by BOH as a scarce breeding summer visitor and passage migrant, Little Ringed Plover was not recorded in Hampshire until 1951.
		BOH describes the Ringed Plover as a moderately common passage migrant and winter visitor.
		This form has never previously been recorded in the UK and it is the only the third Lesser Sand Plover recorded in the UK.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /birdsofhants/species/plovers1.htm (475 words)

	UEA Trip Report
		It is low tide at the khor: 2 Terek Sandpiper, 2 Gull-billed Tern, Caspian Tern, Lesser Sand Plover, Slender-billed Gull, 1 Osprey, 10 Sacred Ibis, 5 Spoonbill, Great White Egret, 1 Yellow-billed Stork (escape), 20 Teal, 10 Shelduck, 4 Black-winged Stilt, 4 Avocet.
		Above sea, Lesser Crested, Saunders’s, Sandwich and Caspian Terns are feeding.
		Afternoon seawatch from a pier near Khor Kalba: Crested and Lesser Crested Tern, Whimbrel, 2 Asiatic Golden Plover, 7 Skua (at least 1 Arctic), 1 possible South Polar Skua, 2 Persian Shearwater, 10 White Cheeked Tern, 1 Black-necked Grebe swimming at sea.
	www.osme.org /osmetrip/uaetripb.html (2026 words)

	British Birds - Back Issues 2000 - September 2000
		Lesser Sand Plover in West Sussex: new to Britain and Ireland Jack Hunt
		On 14th August 1997, a bird thought to be an adult Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii in breeding plumage was found on the mudflats of Pagham Harbour, West Sussex.
		Subsequently, with the aid of photographic evidence, its real identity became apparent and was confirmed as Lesser Sand Plover C.
	www.britishbirds.co.uk /september2000.htm (382 words)

	UAE INTERACT ONLINE : NATURAL EMIRATES : BIRDS : Coasts and Mudflats - United Arab Emirates information on ...
		Other species of interest here are spotted eagle Aquila clanga (late October to March only), greater sand plover and Pacific golden plover Pluvialis fulva (September to April).
		Khor al Beidah, at Umm al Quwain is the most accessible site to see crab plover in winter, when over 300 birds are present at their high tide roost.
		Socotra cormorant, sooty gull, bridled tern, swift tern Sterna bergii, lesser crested tern, white-cheeked tern, pomarine skua Stercorarius pomarinus and Arctic skua Stercorarius parasiticus are seasonally common.
	www.arabianwildlife.com /nature/bird/coast.html (439 words)

	BirdForum - Lesser Sand Plover
		Great photo, and the bird is easily Identified as a Lesser Sand Plover, as your photo clearly shows the feet extending beyond the tail in flight.
		We actually have it as a Mongolian Plover AKA Lesser Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus), I have put it in as another image.
		The only problem is the leg projection, which seems to long for a Lesser, but the tail pattern, the widht of the wing bar in the hand, the bill, (columbinus gives a thinner-billed impression, although, in the subject bird, the head is slightly turned away from the observer) and the jizz of the bird.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=44708 (396 words)

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		Lesser Sand Plover / Mongoolse Plevier Charadrius mongolus, second calender-year, Lhaviyani Atoll, Maldives, July 2004 (Chris van Rijswijk)
		It could be identified as a Lesser Sand Plover Charadrius mongolus.
		The most mentioned incorrect answer was Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii with 13%.
	www.dutchbirding.nl /journal/mom/solutions2.html (297 words)

	B-Mail(sm): ID-FRONTIERS for September 18-24, 2005
		Comments welcomed.=20 The original description is here: =20 "It is slightly larger than a semi-palmated plover, slightly lighter in = color, seems to lack the white neck collar.
		It definitely is not a = Wilson's Plover, as it has a bill shape like a semi-palm.
		It and a = semi-palm took off together and I head two different calls, the standard = semipalm "cheweee" and a rapid three note T-D-D that sounds more like a = sandpiper." At any rate, if tentative ID is correct this would obviously be a very = significant find for the SE United States.
	www.virtualbirder.com /bmail/idfrontiers/200509/w3/index.html (2304 words)

	FAVORITES FROM ADAK, ALASKA
		We then hiked through a wet area near the airport and flushed several snipe, at least one of which was a Common, a Eurasian species recently split from the North American Wilson's Snipe.
		The Marsh Sandpiper was still at Clam Lagoon and we also found a Lesser Sand Plover (until recently known as Mongolian Plover) in basic plumage, which was a lifer for some.
		Dorothy also settled the ID issue, determining that it was an immature Oriental Cuckoo with the help of "Birds of Europe" and, to a lesser extent, "Birds of Korea".
	www.birdtreks.com /highlites/akad.html (5253 words)

	UAE INTERACT ONLINE : NATURAL EMIRATES : BIRDS : Ornithological Importance
		The current UAE population of Socotra cormorants is around 200,000, which is about 15-33% of the estimated total world population.
		The summer population of crab plover is estimated at over 1,200 shared between Abu al Abyadh and another colony on the island of Umm Amim, while the largest wintering population of over 500 birds is at Khor al Beidah.
		The UAE holds the Gulf's largest breeding population of sooty falcon Falco concolor, a strongly migratory species the bulk of which winters in Madagascar.
	www.arabianwildlife.com /nature/bird/ornitho.html (333 words)

	Greater Sandplover Information
		An extraordinary bird, probably a Greater Sand Plover,
		And how rare is the Greater Sand Plover in late winter
		At 8-9" this bird is larger than a Snowy Plover (which
	audubon.sonoma.net /birding/sandplov.html (351 words)

	WORLDTWITCH - Urgent Conservation Request - Spoon-billed Sandpiper Critical Habitat, South Korea, from Nial Moores
		(2) more than 10% of the flyway populations of five species (Lesser Sand Plover, Great Knot, Kentish Plover, Black-tailed Godwit and Dunlin).
		(4) the highest recorded numbers in the WHOLE Yellow Sea on northward migration of five species (Dunlin, Terek Sandpiper, Great Knot, Lesser Sand Plover and the vulnerable Spoon-billed Sandpiper) and on southward migration of seven species (Black-tailed Godwit, Bar-tailed Godwit, Great Knot, Dunlin, Grey Plover, Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand Plover and the vulnerable Spoon-billed Sandpiper).
		These statistics clearly demonstrate the extreme importance of the Saemankeum area for migratory shorebirds and the reason why so many organisations and people, both within South Korea and from outside, are pleading for the project to be cancelled.
	www.worldtwitch.com /korea_wetlands.htm (1094 words)

	The Scotsman - Scotland - Twitchers out for rare plover
		HUNDREDS of twitchers are expected to travel to the East Lothian coast today to catch a glimpse of a rare bird normally only seen in eastern Asia at this time of year.
		The lesser sand plover, which has never been recorded in Scotland before, has caused great excitement in the bird world since it was spotted on Thursday at Aberlady Bay.
		David Kelly, the Lothian recorder for the Scottish Ornithology Club, said: "We are very excited because it is an extremely rare bird."
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=790032004 (207 words)

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		A LESSER FLAMEBACK seen there was the only woodpecker of the trip.
		The narrow channels would merge into larger channels - Gazikhali, Pirkhali etc. Its hard to say how much distance we covered, but while we were in there for over 5 hours, we were still only at the tip of the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve.
		A couple of LESSER SPOTTED EAGLES flying together overhead were a welcome sight.
	www.princeton.edu /~vivekt/trips/Sunderbans00.html (2010 words)

	United Arab Emirates April 1996
		Hume's Wheatear (1, on the road from Masafi to Dibba), Socotra Cormorant (2 ad., in some kind of nature reserve just to the south of Dibba, on an island not far ashore), Little Green (Striated) Heron (1, in a small "dirt-pond" just to the north of Khor Fakkan), sp.
		falco tinnunculus/naumanni (1), Sooty Gull (>300, Khor Fakkan - Khor Kalba), Lesser Crested Tern (>30, Khor Fakkan), Pallid Swift and apus sp.
		Kentish Plover (50), Greater Sandplover (10), Lesser Sandplover (3), Dunlin (200), Bar-tailed Godwit (30), Whimbrel (10), Curlew (5), Terek Sandpiper (100!), Turnstone (3), Saunder's Little Tern (8), Black-crowned Finch Lark (10), Hoopoe Lark (2 pairs, the males were displaying very nice), Lesser Short-toed Lark (1), Clamorous Reed Warbler (1, singing).
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/UAEapr96.html (1541 words)

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