Ringed Plover

Name: Ringed Plover

Scientific name: Charadrius hiaticula

Category: Birds

Nature Stars: 50

What are nature stars?

About: A small, chunky plover, about 18cm long. Sandy brown above, white below with a black chest band and black bridle markings on the head. Nests on bare gravel around gravel pits and reservoirs. A resident.

How to identify: Larger and chunkier than the Little Ringed Plover, with an orange bill with a black tip, orange legs and no yellow ring around the eye. When it flies, has a broad white wingbar.

Where: A common resident right around the coast, also found on gravel pits and reservoirs inland.

Natural Superpowers

• Predator: 40
• Agility: 60
• Rarity: 40
• Cute factor: 40
• Traveller: 60

Fantastic fact: Ringed Plovers that nest as far away as Greenland fly through the UK on migration.

Photograph credit: Photo credit tbc