Common Ringed Plover

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Especially from a distance the Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula) may be confused with the Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius).
However, the adult Common Ringed Plover has an orange bill with a black tip and no eye-ring, whereas the Little Ringed Plover has a black bill and a yellow eye-ring.
Juvenile Common Ringed Plovers (1st and 2nd photo) have a black bill, the markings on the chest and head are more brownish than black, they have dull yellowish-grey legs and they often have an incomplete grey-brown breast band.

Top: Texel, The Netherlands, 19 October 2018
Left: IJmuiden, The Netherlands, 10 September 2012
Middle & Right: Den Oever, The Netherlands, 1 August 2018
Last: Harger- en Pettemerpolder, Groet, The Netherlands, 12 March 2010

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