little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) chick Description
English: Chick - Little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius)
Date 13 May 2012, 16:53:33
Author Aditya Joshi
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Little_ringed_plover_-_chick.jpg
The little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) is a small 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 river valleys (kharadra, "ravine"). The specific dubius is Latin for doubtful, since Sonnerat, writing in 1776, thought this bird might be just a variant of common ringed plover.
