Tibetan Sand Plover

Anarhynchus atrifrons (Wagler, 1829)

This plover has a black mask and pale orange breast and neck in summer plumage, with a brown back and white belly.

How to identify

Field marks

Black mask in summer plumage
Pale orange breast and neck in summer plumage
Brown back and white underparts
Pale throat

Male, female and young

In winter plumage and in juveniles, upperparts are pale brown and underparts white, with variable amounts of white on the forehead and back.

Where and when it's recorded

No records at the public birding hotspots we track. It may be rare, remote, or its locations protected.

About

The Tibetan sand plover (Anarhynchus atrifrons) is a small wader in the plover family of birds, breeds in Pamir Mountains, Tian Shan, Tibetan Plateau and south Mongolia, winters in east and south Africa, south, east and southeast Asia.

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Questions

Where does the Tibetan Sand Plover live?

Its breeding range: Palearctic: inland Central Asia and Tibetan Plateau.

What family is the Tibetan Sand Plover in?

It belongs to the family Plovers (Charadriidae), order Charadriiformes.

Range

Palearctic: inland Central Asia and Tibetan Plateau

Breeding range, IOC World Bird List 15.2

Subspecies · 3

Anarhynchus atrifrons pamirensis w Tien Shan and Pamir Mts. of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and ne Afghanistan to Kunlun Shan (wc China) | non-breeding: coastal and Rift lakes of e, se Africa and Malagasy region to Lakshadweep, Maldives, and Indian subcontinent
Anarhynchus atrifrons atrifrons n Himalayas and s Tibet | non-breeding: coastal s China, Malay Pen., Greater Sundas and Sulawesi region
Anarhynchus atrifrons schaeferi e Tibet | non-breeding: coastal s China, Thailand, Vietnam and Malay Pen. to Greater Sundas