Little Ringed Plover - Charadrius dubius
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More about Ray Tipper
Ray Tipper began his birding on the North Kent Marshes at the age if eleven. He left his native Britain in 1973 spending most of the next 22 years in Hong Kong. As a trustee of WWF he was intimately involved with its renowned Mai Po Nature Reserve. It was in Hong Kong that Ray turned to bird photography, which quickly became his major interest. He gained associateship of the Royal Photographic Society in 1990, and his photographs appear in journals and books throughout the world. Ray guides specialist birdwatching and bird photography tours and since 1997 has led more than 100 tours in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Madagascar. He now lives in the Algarve, where his intimate knowledge of its birds has been recognised by his appointment as Chairman of the Portuguese Rarities Committee.
The Little Ringed Plover is essentially a summer visitor and passage migrant that breeds on the shingle ‘beaches’ of rivers, reservoirs and dams. Most easily separated from (Common) Ringed Plover by its conspicuous yellow eye-ring and (in flight) by the lack of a white wing-bar.
Adult male in breeding plumage. Females usually show a brown suffusion to the
black head and breast markings
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