The Lesser Sand Plover is a small to medium-sized grey-brown and white plover which has a dark eye-stripe and which reaches 18-21 cm in length and 56-71 g in weight. Sexes differ when in breeding plumage, but are inseparable when in non-breeding plumage. Juveniles are distinguishable.
Lesser Sand Plover, Mongolian Plover |
Charadrius mongolus
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Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Species Profile and Threats Database, Charadrius mongolus
Threats Top Global Threats There are a number of threats that affect migratory shorebirds in the East Asian Australasian Flyway.
Global warming and associated changes in sea level are likely to have a long term impact on the breeding; staging and non breeding grounds of migratory waders (Harding et al. 2007).
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