Common Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticula

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This small shorebird is very much like our Semipalmated Plover, and replaces it in Europe and Asia. The breeding range of the Ringed Plover extends to Greenland and to some islands in the high Canadian Arctic, and a very few also come into western Alaska, but these birds virtually all cross to the Old World in fall before migrating south.
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Illustration © David Allen Sibley.
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A soft, 2-syllable tooip or tooeep with slightly rising inflection.Learn more about this sound collection.