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English Lesser Sand Plover Scientific (Charadrius mongolus) Order CHARADRIIFORMES Family (Latin) Charadriidae Family (English) Plovers Other name(s) Mongolian Plover, Lesser Sandplover, Mongolian Dotterel, Lesser Sand-Plover, Pluvier de Mongolie Regions PAL Breeding Range inland c Asia and Tibetan Plateau; disjunctly e Russia Nonbreeding Range coastal e, s Africa to Ryukyu Is. (=Nansei Shoto; s Japan), Australia, Melanesia and w Micronesia Countries (BETA) map Nepal,Somalia,Seychelles,Nauru,Mozambique,Ethiopia,South Africa,Indonesia,Japan,Turkey,Micronesia,Maldives,Bangladesh,Madagascar,India - mainland,Namibia,Taiwan,Laos,Iraq,Thailand,Singapore,Vietnam,United Arab Emirates,Malaysia,Guam,Cambodia,Rwanda,Syria,Mongolia,Zambia,Pakistan,Hong Kong,Sri Lanka,China,Eritrea,Saudi Arabia,Oman,Turkmenistan,Qatar,Philippines,Djibouti,Marshall Islands,Tajikistan,South Korea,Solomon Islands,Poland,Spain,Kenya,Egypt,Australia,Norway,Canada,Papua New Guinea,Iran,Northern Mariana Islands,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Tanzania,Palau,Uganda,Zimbabwe,Yemen,Myanmar,Burundi,Bahrain,Kuwait,New Caledonia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Denmark,Democratic Republic of Congo,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,South Sudan, Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range pamirensis w Tien Shan and Pamir Mts. of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and ne Afghanistan to Kunlun Shan (wc China) atrifrons n Himalayas and s Tibet schaeferi e Tibet mongolus Sea of Okhotsk to Ussuriland (se Siberia) stegmanni Chukotskiy Pen., Kamchatka, Kuril and Commander is. (e Siberia); sporadically w Alaska
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet ) Described by Pallas, 1776 Sound File(s) link return with BackGerman Mongolenregenpfeifer French Pluvier de Mongolie Chinese 蒙古沙鸻 Japanese メダイチドリ Russian Монгольский зуёк Spanish Chorlitejo mongol chico Portuguese borrelho-pequeno-de-colar-ruivo Bird Data app text
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Breeding Range Codes AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara) AN Antarctica AO Atlantic Ocean AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan) IO Indian Ocean LA Latin America (Middle and South America) MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama) NA North America (includes the Caribbean) NO Northern oceans OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas) PO Pacific Ocean SA South America SO Southern oceans TO Temperate oceans TrO Tropical oceans Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes EX Extinct EW Extinct in the wild CR Critically Endangered EN Endangered VU Vulnerable NT Near Threatened LC Least Concern DD Data deficient NE Not evaluated PE Probably extinct (informal) PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)
