little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) Description
English: Little Ringed Plover in Nagpur , India,by Dr. Tejinder Singh Rawal
Date 23 January 2013, 06:39:13
Author Tsrawal
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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.
