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Large, long-legged, elegantly slender plover of pastures, grasslands, and lakeshore flats.
At a glance
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Aggregated occurance data is sourced from 14 different actively-updating datasets including eBird Australia, iNaturalist Australia, BirdLife Australia, and multiple state-based bird surveys through Atlas of Living Australia.
Species notes
Breeding male is dashing, with a pale (sometimes white) head and a bright orange chest separated from the white belly by a thick black bar. Females and nonbreeding adults are similarly stately but much duller in plumage, with brown upperparts, buffy brownish face and sides of breast, and a white belly.
Large, long-legged, elegantly slender plover of pastures, grasslands, and lakeshore flats. Dark brown underwing coverts separate Oriental from similar, smaller Caspian Plover, which has pale underwings.
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