little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius)

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little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius)

Description Charadrius dubius
Nederlands: Kleine plevier
Date 16 September 2015
Source Jos Zwarts
Author Jos Zwarts
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kleine_plevier_Charadrius_dubius_Jos_Zwarts_3.tif

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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