Caspian Plover
A species of Typical plovers Scientific name : Charadrius asiaticus Genus : Typical plovers
Caspian Plover, A species of Typical plovers
Botanical name: Charadrius asiaticus
Genus: Typical plovers
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Photo By Ashwin Viswanathan 
Description
This plover is slightly larger than ringed plover, and it recalls greater sandplover and lesser sandplover in appearance. It is slimmer and longer-legged than the sandplovers, and has a much stronger white supercilium, and a long thin bill. It also lacks white tail sides and a weak wing bar. Summer males have grey-brown backs and a white face and belly. The breast is chestnut, bordered black below. Other plumages have a grey-brown breast band, although the summer female may show a hint of chestnut. The call is a sharp chip. 
Size
20 cm
Feeding Habits
Caspian Plover subsist mainly on insects, especially beetles, grasshoppers, and termites, supplementing with larvae, small snails, and occasionally plant matter like grass seeds. They display stop-run-peck foraging, hunting in diverse environments, including garbage heaps and dung, with season-specific dietary variations.
Habitat
The caspian Plover primarily inhabits lowland desert and desert-steppe regions, frequently found in saltpans or saline soils that experience seasonal flooding. They favor areas with sparse shrub vegetation, often congregating post-breeding along lake and riverbanks, or at waterholes frequented by cattle. In Africa, their environment extends to burnt or heavily grazed grasslands and dry floodplains, occasionally including cultivated lands, coastal dunes, or human-modified areas like airfields and golf courses, drawn by the presence of insects.
Dite type
Insectivorous
General Info
Distribution Area
The Caspian plover breeds in western Asia in the area of the Caspian Sea. Its range includes southern Russia, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Its habitat is steppes, desert verges, saltpans and saline soils amongst sparse shrubby vegetation up to an altitude of about 800 m (2,625 ft). After breeding, it migrates to eastern and southern Africa, going as far as the Zambezi River. Its winter quarters are usually dry grassland, coastal dunes, saltmarshes, dry floodplains and sometimes cultivated land. This plover is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. It is also a rare vagrant to Australia.
Species Status
The Caspian plover has a very wide range. The number of birds may be declining slowly due to degradation of its breeding range, especially in Europe, however the IUCN lists it as being of Least Concern" because it does not consider the rate of decline justifies putting it in a more threatened category. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
Photo By Ashwin Viswanathan 
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Shorebirds Family
Plovers Genus
Typical plovers Species
Caspian Plover 
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