Charadriiformes

Crab Plover (Dromadidae)

HBW 3, p. 302 Learn more about the Handbook of the Birds of the World - Volume 3 on the Lynx Edicions website.

• Medium-sized, long-legged wading birds with thick, powerful bill and burrow-nesting habits.
• Indian Ocean coasts.
• Coastal sandbanks and tidal mudflats, sandflats and coral reefs.
• 1 genus, 1 species, 1 taxon.
• No species threatened; none extinct since 1600.