Red-capped Plover
Anarhynchus ruficapillus
Small energetic plover with a fine bill, white underparts, and pale gray back. Lacks breast band. Adult has an obvious rusty-red cap, whereas juvenile has varying reddish tinges on the back of the head. Occurs beside a wide variety of saline wetlands where it moves quickly as it forages along the ground. Common around inland lakes as well as at the coast.
识别特征
Red-capped plovers have a white forehead and underparts. Their upperparts are mainly grey-brown. Adult males have a rufous or reddish-brown crown and hindneck. Adult females have a paler rufous and grey-brown crown and hindneck, with a pale loreal stripe. The upperwing of Charadrius ruficapillus shows dark brown remiges (flight feathers) and primary covert feathers with a white wingbar in flight. Its length is 14–16 cm (5.5–6.3 in) and its wingspan is 27–34 cm (10.6–13.4 in); it weighs 35–40 g (1.2–1.4 oz).<p>Breeding plumage shows a red-brown crown and nape with black margins. Non-breeding plumage is duller and lacks the black margins.
分类信息
- 学名
- Anarhynchus ruficapillus
- 命名信息
- (Temminck, 1821)
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Charadriidae
- 属
- Anarhynchus
分布与栖息地
The red-capped plover is widespread in Australia; it is a vagrant to New Zealand, although it bred there for some time in small numbers from 1950–1980. The species occupies a range of coastal and inland habitats, including estuaries, bays, beaches, sandflats, and mudflats; inland saline wetlands. It is also found in inland wetland areas with bare ground.
- 繁殖区
- AU : Timor (e Lesser Sundas), inland and coastal Australia and Tasmania
- 非繁殖区
- to e Java
- 迁徙
- Resident species
保护状况
With a large range and no evidence of significant population decline, this species' conservation status is of Least Concern.
- 种群趋势
- unknown
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