There has one Australian record of a Kentish Plover.
Recent research indicates that there is at least another subspecies and
perhaps a separate species in South-east Asia - the White-fronted
Plover. The latter has been seen in mixed flocks with 'standard' Kentish
plovers in Thailand and Singapore. The White-fronted form is known to
breed in China.
While the only record for Australia is guessed to have been the
'standard' Kentish Plover, it may just as well have been the
White-fronted form.
Recently, while in Hoi An, just south of Da Nang on the central
Vietnamese coast, I photographed a bird that did not look like a
standard Kentish Plover. After much puzzling out I have come to a view
that it was a White-fronted form. Apart from being another piece in the
Kentish Plover/White-fronted species/subspecies jigsaw, I also
photographed a chick.
I think this would rate as a first breeding record for Vietnam.
Now to try to write something up on a bird with which I have no
background...
regards
Con
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