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The Red-capped Plover (Anarhynchus ruficapillus) is native to Australia (the name changed from Charadrius ruficapillus, based on recent taxonomic studies).
It is a small plover with a fine bill, white underparts, and pale grey back. The adult has a rusty-red cap and brown stripe through eye. The juvenile has a varied reddish tinges on the back of the head.
They are found in a variety of saline wetlands and can be common around inland lakes and water sources.
The photographs presented here were taken in the month of October and November.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Charadriidae
- Genus: Anarhynchus
- Species: Anarhynchus ruficapillus
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
- Informal: Gnathostomata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Charadriidae
- Subfamily: Charadriinae
- Genus: Charadrius
- Subgenus: infrageneric Charadrius
- Species: Charadrius ruficapillus
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Colin Trainor and Mark Clayton for clarification of ID, member of Australian Bird Identification (ABID), Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/aubirdid/
- Red-capped Plover (Anarhynchus ruficapillus), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/1505662-Anarhynchus-ruficapillus
- Charadrius (Charadrius) ruficapillus Temminck, 1821, Red-Capped Plover, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/9cc11ab9-ab7a-43d6-a04f-3ae4c7a1a42a
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