greater sand plover (Charadrius leschenaultii) Description
Latina: Charadrius leschenaultii
中文: 中名：鐵嘴沙鴴
English: Greater Sand Plover
Equipment : - ISO 400, F9.0, 1/400sec - Nikon D3 - Nikkor AFS 500mm F.4 VRII
Date 27 September 2009, 10:24
Source Greater Sand Plover %u9435%u5634%u6C99%u9D34 http://www.flickr.com/photos/21437472@N07/3958892035/
Author Chung Kiu, Ryan Cheng from Hong Kong http://www.flickr.com/people/21437472@N07
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greater_Sand_Plover.jpg
The greater sand plover (Charadrius leschenaultii) is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as "greater sandplover" or "greater sand-plover", but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is "Greater Sand Plover". The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, "ravine"). The specific leschenaultii commemorates the French botanist Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Charadriidae.
