Chestnut-banded Plover

Chestnut-banded Plover
Chestnut-banded Plover
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Charadriidae
Genus: Charadrius
Species: C. pallidus
Binomial name
Charadrius pallidus
Strickland, 1852

The Chestnut-banded Plover (Charadrius pallidus) is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.

It is found in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Rarer than previously believed, it is uplisted from a species of Least Concern to Near Threatened in the 2007 IUCN Red List.[1]

References

  1. ^ See BirdLife International (2007a. b).