little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius)

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Subject:	little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius)
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Description
Charadrius dubius
Date
Source Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas 1905, or earlier works.
Author John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charadrius_dubius.jpg

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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