Common Ringed Plover

How to identify

Field marks

1. Adults in breeding plumage have a black neckband across the white breast
2. Adults in breeding plumage have a white forehead and black mask
3. Adults in breeding plumage have a short orange-and-black bill
4. Adults in breeding plumage have orange legs and feet

Male, female and young

Juveniles are duller, with an often incomplete gray-rufous breast-band, a dark bill and dark yellowish-gray legs and feet.

Where and when it's recorded

Common Ringed Plover has been recorded at 1,636 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 140 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE)Israel4,671 records
2. Titchwell Marsh RSPB ReserveUnited Kingdom4,640 records
3. Txingudi – PlaiaundiSpain3,718 records

Countries and regions with the most records

United KingdomSpainPortugalIsraelIcelandSwedenSouth AfricaNorway

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The common ringed plover, great ringed plover or ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula) is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae. It breeds across much of northern Eurasia, as well as Greenland.

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