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Identifier: birdsofbritish00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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^*p^ J^ 2 T/. 78. N192. Ringed Plover.Kentish Plover.
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KILLDEER PLOVER. I93 Little Ringed Plover, ^gialitls dubia (Scop.). The Little Ringed Plover has been often reported, but itclosely resembles the larger bird, and the majority of therecords are erroneous. It is a very rare wanderer onmigration, and, with the exception of one shot in North Uist,has appeared less than a dozen times in southern counties ;most of the dates have been during autumn migration. Yet inEurope, where the bird has a wide range, it breeds in Holland,Belgium, and France, and migrates to Africa; its normalmigration route must be east of Britain. It is more of aninland than a coastal species, nesting on river margins. As its name implies, it is smaller than our bird, but the bestdistinction is in the wing ; the inner primaries are uniformbrown. In the Ringed Plover the inner webs are white, andshow as a white patch when the wing is closed, as a bar whenit is open. The bill is black, only slightly yellowish at thebase of the lower mandible, and the legs are paler, rat

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