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Three-banded Plover Thinornis tricollaris Scientific name definitions

Josep del Hoyo, Popko Wiersma, Guy M. Kirwan, Nigel Collar, David Christie, and Peter F. D. Boesman
Version: 1.2 — Published October 22, 2024
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Introduction

Taxonomic note: Lump. This account is a combination of multiple species accounts originally published in HBW Alive. That content has been combined and labeled here at the subspecies level. Moving forward we will create a more unified account for this parent taxon. Please consider contributing your expertise to update this account.

Subspecies


EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

Three-banded Plover (African) Thinornis tricollaris tricollaris Scientific name definitions

Distribution

Egypt (recently colonized) (4, 5), and Eritrea to Tanzania, southern DR Congo and Gabon, and south to South Africa; non-breeding also around Lake Chad.


EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

Three-banded Plover (Madagascar) Thinornis tricollaris bifrontatus Scientific name definitions

Distribution

Madagascar.
Distribution of the Three-banded Plove - Range Map
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  • Year-round
  • Migration
  • Breeding
  • Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Three-banded Plove

Map last updated 21 October 2024.

Recommended Citation

del Hoyo, J., P. Wiersma, G. M. Kirwan, N. Collar, D. A. Christie, and P. F. D. Boesman (2024). Three-banded Plover (Thinornis tricollaris), version 1.2. In Birds of the World (B. K. Keeney, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.thbplo1.01.2
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