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Common Ringed Plover

Charadrius hiaticula

Classification

Class
Aves

The common ringed plover, great ringed plover or ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula) is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae. It breeds across much of northern Eurasia, as well as Greenland. Taxonomy The common ringed plover was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the current binomial name Charadrius hiaticula.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 100,709United Kingdom · 86,204Spain · 82,001France · 22,915Germany · 11,165Italy · 2,862Belgium · 1,617Switzerland · 779Luxembourg · 8