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Twisting and turning on long, angular wings, this relative of the sandpipers and plovers gives a swallowlike impression in flight.
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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
Adults are brown overall with an elegant black necklace and pale yellow throat. Juveniles are a mottled gray-brown above and lack the adult's necklace.
When in flight, note dark flight feathers, chestnut underwing coverts, lack of a bright white trailing edge to the wings, and a flashing white rump.
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