Editing Little ringed plover

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{{Speciesbox
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2019 |title=''Charadrius dubius'' |volume=2019 |page=e.T22693770A155486463 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22693770A155486463.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| image = Flussregenpfeifer im flachen Wasser 01.jpg
| image_caption = Near Roermond, Netherlands
| taxon = Charadrius dubius
| authority = [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli|Scopoli]], 1786
| range_map = CharadriusDubiusIUCN2019-3.png
| range_map_caption = Range of ''Ch. dubius''{{leftlegend|#00FF00|Breeding|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#008000|Resident|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#00FFFF|Passage|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#007FFF|Non-breeding|outline=gray}} 
}}
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 [[Pierre Sonnerat|Sonnerat]], writing in 1776, thought this bird might be just a variant of [[common ringed plover]].<ref name=job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n99 99], 141}}</ref>

== Description ==

Adult little ringed plovers have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly and a white breast with one black neckband. They have a brown cap, a white forehead, a black mask around the eyes with white above and a short dark bill. The legs are flesh-coloured and the toes are all webbed.

This species differs from the larger [[ringed plover]] in leg colour, the head pattern, and the presence of a clear yellow eye-ring.

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==Gallery==
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Flussregenpfeifer Charadrius dubius.jpg|Mating, the male bird hits the cloaca of the female bird
Charadrius dubius curonicus MHNT.jpg|Egg of '' Charadrius dubius'', [[MHNT]]
Little ringed plover - chick.jpg|Little ringed plover chick
Juvenile little ringed plover.jpg|A juvenile at Pulicat Lake, India
File:Little ringed plover - Fulzar Dam, Jamnagar 2021-11-14.jpg|At Fulzar Dam, Jamnagar
Little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) in padma river.jpg|At [[Padma River]], Bangladesh
File:Little Ringed Plover AMSM6848 LRPL.jpg|Adult in breeding plumage at [[Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]
Little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) in flight Malta.jpg|In Malta
</gallery>

== Habitats and range ==
Their breeding habitat is open gravel areas near freshwater, including gravel pits, islands and river edges across the [[Palearctic]] including northwestern [[Africa]]. They nest on the ground on stones with little or no plant growth. Both males and females take turns incubating the eggs.

They are [[bird migration|migratory]] and winter in [[Africa]]. These birds forage for food on muddy areas, usually by sight. They eat insects and worms.

==Subspecies==
Three subspecies recognized.
*''C. d. curonicus'' <small>J. F. Gmelin, 1789</small> - from Eurasia, Russian Fareast, Japan, Korea, China to North Africa. Winter spends in Sahara, Sri Lanka, to Indonesia and China.
*''C. d. jerdoni'' <small>(Legge, 1880)</small> - from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan to South East Asia.
*''C. d. dubius'' <small>Scopoli, 1786</small> - from the Philippines, New Guinea to Bismarck Archipelago.

== Conservation ==
The little ringed plover is one of the species to which the ''Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds'' ([[AEWA]]) applies.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Charadrius dubius}}
{{Wikispecies|Charadrius dubius}}
* [http://www.ebepe.com/html/redshank.html Little ringed plover] Images and documentation <!-- Link is called redshank.html but has some little ringed plovers -->
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180425032415/https://aulaenred.ibercaja.es/wp-content/uploads/168_LittleRingedPloverCdubius.pdf Sexing and ageing (PDF; 5.4 MB) by Javier Blasco-Zumeta & Gerd-Michael Heinze]
* {{BirdLife|22693770|Charadrius dubius}}
* {{Avibase|name=Charadrius dubius}}
* {{InternetBirdCollection|Little-ringed-plover-Charadrius-dubius|Little ringed plover}}
* {{VIREO|Little+ringed+plover|Little ringed plover}}
* {{IUCN_Map|22693770/166264107|Charadrius dubius}}
* {{Xeno-canto species|Charadrius|dubius|Little ringed plover}}
* {{field guide birds of the world|Charadrius dubius}}
* {{ARKive}}

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[[Category:Charadrius|little ringed plover]]
[[Category:Birds of Eurasia]]
[[Category:Birds of Africa]]
[[Category:Birds described in 1786|little ringed plover]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]]