Dotterel
For wader enthusiasts each spring provides an opportunity to discover a trip of dotterel. These exciting passage migrants regularly halt in Norfolk before continuing their journey to northern mountains and the tundra.
Dotterel
Wild and impermanent
as the sea-foam blown,
the dotterel keeps its distance
and runs alone.
The Dotterel's food is insects and other small invertebrates such as snails and worms and shellfish. These are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups.
Eurasian Dotterel Charadrius morinellus - Assuming breeding plumage
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Red-kneed Dotterel Erythrogonys cinctus
Described by: Gould (1838)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): Charadrius cinctus ...
Rufous-chested Dotterel
Charadrius modestus
Local Name: Dotterel
Breeding Range: Falklands & southern South America
Length: 22cm.
Falklands Population: ~10,000 breeding pairs
World Population: unknown ...
Dotterel, Inland aka Australian Dotterel Charadrius australis Found: Australia
Photographed by Arthur Chapman ...
Hooded Dotterel by Mike Freiberg
Now that you know what a plover is, learn about the raging controversy surrounding plover pronunciation.
Semipalmated Plover (C. semipalmatus) by Mike Bergin ...
Inland Dotterel, Peltohyas australis
Wrybill, Anarhynchus frontalis : The Wrybill or Ngutuparore (Māori) Anarhynchus frontalis is a species of plover endemic to New Zealand.
Dotterel filefish, Aluterus heudelotii Hollard, 1855
Aluterus maculosus Richardson, 1840
Unicorn leatherjacket, Aluterus monoceros (Linnaeus, 1758)
Orange filefish, Aluterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792) ...
Banded Dotterel Charadrius bicinctus ( Tuturiwhatu)
New Zealand Dotterel Charadrius obscurus( Tuturiwhatu)
Mongolian Dotterel Charadrius mongolus ...
Indeed, in many species of Limicolae, as the dotterel, the godwits (q.v.), phalaropes and perhaps some others, the female is larger and more brightly coloured than the male, ...
Charadrius morinellus - Eurasian Dotterel (photo)
Charadrius placidus - Long-billed Plover
Charadrius vociferus - Killdeer
Pluvialis
Pluvialis dominica - American Golden Plover
Pluvialis apricaria - Greater Golden Plover ...
The Old World dotterel and the European lapwing are members of the family, as are the crocodile birds of Africa, insectivorous plovers described by Herodotus as picking the teeth of crocodiles.
Most members of the family are known as plovers, lapwings or dotterels. These were rather vague terms which were not applied with any great consistency in the past.
There are about 65 species in the Charadriidae family, including about 15 Lapwings (most have crests), and some 50 "plovers", which includes non-plover names like Killdeer and Dotterel.
Black Bellied Plover
Eurasian Dotterel
Lesser Golden Plover
Mountain Plover ...
TURNSTONE, Tringa Interpres, Wile. Amer. Orn., vol. vii. p. 32.
STREPSILAS INTERPRES, Bonap. Syn., p. 299.
STREPSILAS INTERPRES, Turnstone, Swains. and Rich. F. Bor. Amer., Vol. ii.p. 371.
TURNSTONE or SEA DOTTEREL, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 30.
 See also: Plover, Lapwing, Stilt, Oyster, Sandpiper
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