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- Collared_plover abstract "The collared plover (Charadrius collaris) is a small shorebird in the plover family, Charadriidae. It lives along coasts and riverbanks of the tropical to temperate Americas, from central Mexico south to Chile and Argentina.This small plover is 18 centimetres (7.1 in) long and weighs 35 grams (1.2 oz). Its upperparts are brown and the underparts white in all plumages. Adults have a black breast band. The male has a white forehead, bordered above by a black frontal bar, and below by a black stripe from the bill to the eye. The midcrown and nape are chestnut and the legs are yellow. In flight, the flight feathers are dark with a white wing bar, and the tail shows white sides.The female collared plover is usually very similar to the male, but some individuals can be sexed by a brown tinge to the black areas. Immature birds lack any black on the head, and the breast band is replaced by brown patches on each side of the chest. The flight call is a sharp metallic pip.Two sympatric Charadrius species are very similar: The snowy plover is similar in size and structure to this species, but is paler above, has dark legs, and never has a complete breastband. semipalmated plovers are larger, thicker-billed, and has a pale collar. Ironically, it is the lack of a pale collar which gives the collared plover its English language and scientific names.The collared plover is found on sandy coasts, estuarine mud, inland riverbanks and open sandy savannas. It breeds from Mexico south through Central America and most of South America. It also occurs on some of the southern Caribbean islands, and both Trinidad and Tobago. It appears to be mainly sedentary, although there is some evidence for limited seasonal movements. Collared plovers feed on insects and other invertebrates, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups. This species is not particularly gregarious, and seldom forms flocks. It is usually very wary.The timing of breeding activity varies depending on location: November to December in western Mexico, March to June in Costa Rica, January in Venezuela, and March in the lowlands of Ecuador. The male's courtship display involves fluffing out his breast feathers and running after the female; the species has no known aerial display. The nest is a bare ground scrape well above the tide or flood line on coasts and river shores or islands, or inland, often next to low cover, such as tufts of grass. The clutch is two pale buff eggs, spotted with brown. Like many ground-nesting species, adults perform a broken-wing display to lure presumed threats away from their nest and young.".
- Collared_plover binomialAuthority Louis_Jean_Pierre_Vieillot.
- Collared_plover class Bird.
- Collared_plover conservationStatus "LC".
- Collared_plover conservationStatusSystem "IUCN3.1".
- Collared_plover family Charadriidae.
- Collared_plover genus Charadrius.
- Collared_plover kingdom Animal.
- Collared_plover order Charadriiformes.
- Collared_plover order Wader.
- Collared_plover phylum Chordate.
- Collared_plover thumbnail Charadrius_collaris.jpg?width=300.
- Collared_plover wikiPageID "2651746".
- Collared_plover wikiPageLength "4999".
- Collared_plover wikiPageOutDegree "49".
- Collared_plover wikiPageRevisionID "629266033".
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Americas.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Animalia.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Argentina.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Aves.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Beak.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Bird.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Bird_egg.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Bird_migration.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Bird_nest.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Broken-wing_display.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Caribbean.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Category:Animals_described_in_1818.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Category:Charadrius.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Category:Plovers.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Central_America.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Charadrii.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Charadriidae.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Charadriiformes.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Charadrius.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Chile.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Chordata.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Chordate.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Clutch_(eggs).
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Distraction_display.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink English_language.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Estuarine.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Estuary.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Flight_feather.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Flock_(behavior).
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Grass.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Helm_Identification_Guides.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Insect.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Invertebrate.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Island.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Louis_Jean_Pierre_Vieillot.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Mexico.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Neornithes.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Plover.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Savanna.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Semipalmated_plover.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Shorebird.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Snowy_plover.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink South_America.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Sympatric.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Sympatry.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Temperate.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Temperate_climate.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Tide.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Tobago.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Trinidad.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Tropical.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Tropics.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLink Wader.
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLinkText "Collared plover".
- Collared_plover wikiPageWikiLinkText "collared plover".
- Collared_plover binomial "Charadrius collaris".
- Collared_plover classis Aves.
- Collared_plover classis Bird.
- Collared_plover familia Charadriidae.
- Collared_plover genus "Charadrius".
- Collared_plover hasPhotoCollection Collared_plover.
- Collared_plover name "Collared plover".
- Collared_plover ordo Charadriiformes.
- Collared_plover phylum Chordata.
- Collared_plover phylum Chordate.
- Collared_plover regnum Animal.
- Collared_plover regnum Animalia.
- Collared_plover species "C. collaris".
- Collared_plover status "LC".
- Collared_plover statusSystem "IUCN3.1".
- Collared_plover subclassis Bird.
- Collared_plover subclassis Neornithes.
- Collared_plover subordo Charadrii.
- Collared_plover subordo Wader.
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- Collared_plover wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Taxobox.
- Collared_plover subject Category:Animals_described_in_1818.
- Collared_plover subject Category:Charadrius.
- Collared_plover subject Category:Plovers.
- Collared_plover hypernym Shorebird.
- Collared_plover type Animal.