Species profile
Mongolian Plover
Charadrius mongolus
Quick answer
Range C. m. mongolus Biak. Status Palearctic migrant. Common Palearctic migrant to New Guinea (Bishop 2006) but just three records on Biak. 14 February 1954: one collected by Hoogerheide at Mokmer, south coast (Junge 1956); 9 January 1997: one with two Greater Sand Plovers C. leschenaultii on the coast near Marauw (SvB); 23 August 2019: one (K. Behrens, eBird checklist S 59190619) or two (P. Chaon, eBird checklist S 59302575) at the tsunami swamp.
- Scientific name
- Charadrius mongolus
- Family
- Charadriidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Charadrius
- Conservation status
- Endangered
Recording Mongolian Plover in your journal
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Related species in Charadriidae
- Andean Lapwing (Vanellus resplendens)
- Banded Lapwing (Vanellus tricolor)
- Black-banded Plover (Charadrius thoracicus)
- black-bellied plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
- Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops)
- Black-headed Lapwing (Vanellus tectus)
- Black-winged Lapwing (Vanellus melanopterus)
- Blacksmith lapwing, Blacksmith plover (Vanellus armatus)