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INLAND DOTTEREL FACTS |
Description
The Inland Dotterel is a shorebird that lives in inland Australia. The breeding plumage is pale brown heavily streaked with dark brown above, chestnut coloured breast and belly, white underside and white under tail, black v-shaped band on chest that continues round the neck, black line across head and through each eye. Non breeding plumage has less distinct v-shaped marking and neck band, less distinct head line, less streaking on back. Juvenile is like the non-breeding adult without the black markings on head, neck and chest
Size
20 cm
Habitat
sparsely vegetated plains, farmland
Food
fleshy leaves of desert shrubs
Breeding
nest is a shallow depression in the ground. The female lays three eggs
Range
found in inland Australia in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and Northern Territory
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Charadriiformes | | Family: | Charadriidae | | Genus: | Charadrius | | Species: | australis | | Common Name: | Inland Dotterel |
Relatives in same Genus
Kentish Plover (C. alexandrinus)
Double-banded Plover (C. bicinctus)
Little Ringed Plover (C. dubius)
Ringed Plover (C. hiaticula)
Greater Sand Plover (C. leschenaultii)
Lesser Sand Plover (C. mongolus)
Red-capped Plover (C. ruficapillus)
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