General Description
Non-breeding: upper body brown; underparts white; cream stripe through eye. Breeding: white forehead with black eye mask; wide black stripe across upper breast, wide red-brown stripe across lower breast. Body up to 19 cm long.
Biology
Double-banded Plovers migrate from New Zealand where they breed, to Australia in autumn. They arrive in March and depart in August.
Distribution
New Zealand. Southern and eastern mainland Australia and Tasmania.
Habitat
Beaches, grassed edges of open wetlands and intertidal mudflats.
More Information
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Animal Type
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Brief Id
Brown back, white belly, white forehead, black eye mask with faint white stripe through the eye, two wide stripes across the breast when breeding.
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Colours
Brown, White, Black
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Diet
Carnivore
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Diet Categories
Crustaceans, Insects, Molluscs
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Endemicity
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Conservation Statuses
CITES: Not listed, FFG Threatened List: Not listed, EPBC Act 1999: Not listed, IUCN Red List: Near Threatened
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Taxon Name
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Scientific Author
Jardine & Selby, 1827
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Common Name
Double-banded Plover
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Species Name
bicinctus
