White-faced Plover

How to identify

Field marks

1. White forecrown and supercilium
2. Pale reddish-brown crown and pale brownish-gray upperparts
3. White nape collar, throat and underparts
4. Dark bill, legs and feet; short tail

Similar species

Kentish Plover

White-faced Plover has a thicker, blunter bill, white lores, a paler crown and upperparts, fewer black patches on the sides of the breast and a larger white wing-bar than Kentish Plover.

Where and when it's recorded

White-faced Plover has been recorded at 67 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 7 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Laem Phak Bia – sandspitThailand568 records
2. Marina EastSingapore544 records
3. Bang Pakong – The Gleua Café salt pansThailand123 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ThailandSingaporeChinaVietnamMalaysiaCambodiaSouth Korea

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 white-faced plover (Anarhynchus dealbatus) is a small shorebird predominantly found along the coastal shores of subtropical and tropical eastern Asia. Initially described by British ornithologist Robert Swinhoe, the bird resembles the east Asian subspecies of the Kentish plover (A. a. nihonensis) with which it has been much confused and sometimes considered to be a subspecies.

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