Species
Charadrius mongolus (Lesser sand-plover)
Charadrius mongolus. Photo: (c) L Pittman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The lesser sand plover (Charadrius mongolus) is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as lesser sand-plover, but the official British Ornithologists’ Union spelling is “lesser sand plover”. The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, “ravine”). The specific mongolus is Latin and refers…
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