AI overview
The Greater Sand Plover is a small wading bird that travels long distances across Asia and Africa, breeding in dry, sandy regions and migrating to coastal areas for winter. It matters because monitoring its populations helps scientists track the health of the wetlands and beaches it depends on, which are increasingly threatened by human development.
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Species
Least Concerngreat sand-plover
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyCharadriidae
Habitatmarine
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Charadrius
- Image
- Greater Sand Plover.jpg
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Article
The greater sand plover (Anarhynchus leschenaultii) is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is often given as "greater sandplover" or "greater sand-plover", but the official IOC and British Ornithologists' Union spelling is "Greater Sand Plover". The specific leschenaultii commemorates the French botanist Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. Like most other species in the genus Anarhynchus, it was until recently included in the genus Charadrius.
Distribution