Birds of Russia and Adjacent Regions: The Oriental Plover (Charadrius Veredus)

The Oriental Plover is a wader breeding in the Central Asia, where it occupies dry steppes and semideserts in Mongolia and northern China. In Russia it is known at the northernmost limits of its breeding range, in Tyva Republic and in Transbaikalia. During the non-breeding season Oriental Plovers prefer the same habitats in Australia and to a lesser extent use seashores of the mainland and adjacent islands. Population dynamics moult and many other aspects of the species biology remain poorly known. The paper summarizes data from both published sources and observations of the author about the appearance, distribution, behaviour, breeding biology and foods of the species.