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Greater Sand-Plover

විශාල වැලි කිරල්ලා மணல் உப்புக்கொத்தி

Anarhynchus leschenaultii

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Greater Sand-Plover
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Overview

The greater sand plover is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is often given as "greater sandplover" or "greater sand-plover", but the official IOC and British Ornithologists' Union spelling is "Greater Sand Plover". The specific leschenaultii commemorates the French botanist Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour. Like most other species in the genus Anarhynchus, it was until recently included in the genus Charadrius.

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia (EN): Greater sand plover — CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikipedia (TA): மணல் உப்புக்கொத்தி — CC BY-SA 4.0