Scientific Name: Pluvialis squatarola Common Name: Grey Plover
Identifying Features: grey wings with white spots, greyish-brown head and neck, white belly, dark grey legs, black beak
Fun Facts:
- They forage for food on beaches and tidal flats. Food consists of small molluscs, polychaete worms, crustaceans, and insects.
- Less gregarious than the other Pluvialis species, not forming dense feeding flocks, instead feeding widely dispersed over beaches, with birds well spaced apart.
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