| Three-banded plover | |
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| Chobe National Park, Botswana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Charadriidae |
| Genus: | Charadrius |
| Species: | C. tricollaris
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| Binomial name | |
| Charadrius tricollaris Vieillot, 1818
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The three-banded plover, or three-banded sandplover (Charadrius tricollaris), is a small wader. This plover is resident and generally sedentary in much of East Africa, southern Africa and Madagascar. It occurs mainly on inland rivers, pools, lakes and pans, frequenting their exposed shores. This species is often seen as single individuals, but it will form small flocks. It hunts by sight for insects, worms and other invertebrates. Three-banded plovers have a sharp whistled weeet-weet call. Its larger and darker-plumaged sister species, Forbes's plover, replaces it in West Africa and in the moist tropics. The two species have largely allopatric breeding ranges. Both species present a distinctively elongated profile, due to their proportionally long tail and wings.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Charadrius tricollaris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22727471A94950399. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22727471A94950399.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.