Red-capped Plover

Charadrius ruficapillus

Conservation Status: Least concern

“Red-capped Plovers occur along virtually the entire Australian coastline, but they also occur in great numbers inland, especially around saltlakes. They usually inhabit wide, bare sandflats or mudflats at the margins of saline, brackish or freshwater wetlands where they forage by using their characteristic ‘stop-run-peck’ method, taking small invertebrates from the surface.” Birdlife Australia