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Oriental PloverAlternate name(s): "Oriental Dotterel" Size: 22-25 cm; wing span 46-53 cm Weight: 95 g (average) |
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ADULT |
Sex unknown |
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BREEDING |
Oriental Plover on a rock platform; the bird on the right
is still retaining part of its breeding
plumage
while the three on the left are in non-breeding
plumage on a
rockface
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Nightcliff Foreshore, Darwin, NT, November 2018]
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NON-BREEDING |
Close-up frontal view of an Oriental Plover in non-breeding
plumage in a
swamp
(photo courtesy of T. Faulkner)
[Dairy Swamp, Central Coast Wetlands, Tuggerah, NSW, September 2013]
Frontal view of an Oriental Plover in non-breeding
plumage on a
rockface
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Nightcliff Foreshore, Darwin, NT, December 2015]
Frontal view of an Oriental Plover in non-breeding
plumage on a
rockface
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Nightcliff Foreshore, Darwin, NT, December 2015]
Near-frontal view of an Oriental Plover in non-breeding
plumage
(photo courtesy of A. Morris)
[Dairy Swamp, Central Coast Wetlands, Tuggerah, NSW, September 2013]
Near-lateral view of Oriental Plovers in non-breeding
plumage on a
rockface
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Nightcliff Foreshore, Darwin, NT, November 2018]
Lateral view of an Oriental Plover in non-breeding
plumage
(photo courtesy of A. Morris)
[Dairy Swamp, Central Coast Wetlands, Tuggerah, NSW, September 2013]
Lateral view of an Oriental Plover in non-breeding
plumage
(photo courtesy of A. Morris)
[Dairy Swamp, Central Coast Wetlands, Tuggerah, NSW, September 2013]
Lateral view of an Oriental Plover in non-breeding
plumage on a
rockface
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Nightcliff Foreshore, Darwin, NT, November 2018]
Lateral view of an Oriental Plover in non-breeding
plumage foraging
in a swamp
(photo courtesy of T. Faulkner)
[Dairy Swamp, Central Coast Wetlands, Tuggerah, NSW, September 2013]
Lateral view of an Oriental Plover in non-breeding
plumage on a
rockface
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Nightcliff Foreshore, Darwin, NT, November 2018]
Oriental Plovers in non-breeding
plumage resting on a
rockface
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Nightcliff Foreshore, Darwin, NT, November 2018]
Near-dorsal view of an Oriental Plover in non-breeding
plumage
(photo courtesy of A. Morris)
[Dairy Swamp, Central Coast Wetlands, Tuggerah, NSW, September 2013]
Oriental Plovers in non-breeding
plumage on a
rockface;
note that the birds are heat-stressed at 9:30 in the morning
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Nightcliff Foreshore, Darwin, NT, November 2018]