Crab Plover (Dromas ardeola) photo
An adult post-breeding bird living up to its name.
- Recorded 12 August 2007
- Added to IBC 2 years 5 weeks ago
- Steve Garvie
- Locality Mida Creek Reserve, Kenya (Monotypic species).
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More material of this species
- 4.4A juvenile bir...Kenya, Sep 2011
- 4.3Crab Plover fe...India, Nov 2007
- 4.2A post-breedin...Kenya, Aug 2007
- 4.2An adult bird ...India, Feb 2011
- 4.2Juvenile and a...India,
- 4Juvenile in fl...Madagascar, Nov 2011
Recent material by Steve Garvie
- 4.5An adult perch...Kenya, Jul 2010
- 4.3An adult male ...Kenya, Jul 2010
- 4.2A calling adul...Kenya, Jul 2010
- 4.7An adult shadi...Kenya, Jul 2010
- 4.6Male Verreaux'...Kenya, Jul 2010
- 4.2This female Ve...Kenya, Jul 2010
This unusual wader stands apart from all other waders in that it lays a single egg within a nest hidden in a burrow. The single nidicolous chick is fed by the adult birds and begging behaviour can even occasionally be seen on the wintering grounds.