Oriental Plover

Charadrius veredus (Gould, 1848)

2009-05-09 Atanbaschink, Irgiz region, Aktobe oblast.	© Klaus Nigge

Distribution

One vagrant bird was shot by N.A. Zarudnyy 16 September 1910 on Chushkakol lake near Turkestan. Another one bird was observed by Albert Salemgareev and Klaus Nigge (photo) in Atanbaschink (Aktobe oblast) 9 May 2009. Twice recorded near Samarkand and Tashkent.

Biology

Rare vagrant bird.

References

Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005. Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999. Рябицев В. К., Ковшарь А. Ф., Ковшарь В. А., Березовиков Н. Н. «Полевой определитель птиц Казахстана», Алматы, 2014.