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Lesser Sand Plover
Sign in to saveAlso known as Mongolian sand plover, Charadrius mongolus, Mongolian Sand Plover, Anarhynchus mongolus
species of bird
Species
lesser sand plover
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyCharadriidae
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Charadrius
- Image
- Charadrius mongolus - Laem Phak Bia.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Endangered status
- Commons category
- Charadrius mongolus
- taxon name
- Charadrius mongolus
- taxon common name
- Fandiafasikakely
- wingspan
- 51.5
- litter size
- 3
- longest observed lifespan
- 21
- endemic to
- Gajoldoba
- short name
- C. mongolus
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Encyclopedic overview
The Siberian sand plover (Anarhynchus mongolus) is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The International Ornithologists' Union split the Tibetan sand plover from the lesser sand plover and changed its vernacular name to Siberian sand plover. The specific mongolus is Latin and refers to Mongolia, which at the time of naming referred to a larger area than the present country.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lesser Sand Plover” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.