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14-16 cm. Small Plover. Male : Like breeding male Kentish Plover : C.
alexandrinus but shorter bill, upperpart and wing coverts with prominent
pale fringes, narrower black lateral breast-patches which extend in complete
band below white nuchal collar, pinkish legs. Female : lacks black
markings, rufous ear coverts and lateral breast patches.
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Very much recuced. Threatened by human persecution and habitat loss.
Recorded from Rayong; Phetchaburi (Laem Phuk Bia); Prachuap Khiri
Khan (Khao Sam Roi Yot NP); Chumphon (Pathio); Phangnga (Ko
Prathong); Krabi (Thung Thale NHA) and Trang (Ko Libong NHA, Hat
Chao Mai NP).