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Species
Near ThreatenedMalaysian plover
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyCharadriidae
Habitatmarine
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Anarhynchus
- Image
- Charadrius peronii - Laem Phak Bia.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Near Threatened
- taxon name
- Anarhynchus peronii
- Commons category
- Charadrius peronii
- taxon common name
- borrelho-malaio
- litter size
- 3
- short name
- A. peronii
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Encyclopedic overview
The Malaysian plover or Malay plover (Anarhynchus peronii, syn. Charadrius peronii) is a small (c. 35–42 g) wader that nests on beaches and salt flats in Southeast Asia.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Malaysian Plover” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.