Red-capped Plover

Anarhynchus ruficapillus (Temminck, 1821)

Red-capped Plover, Anarhynchus ruficapillus, is a plover of inland and coastal Australia and Tasmania, breeding also in Timor in the Lesser Sundas and moving to eastern Java outside the breeding season. It is a small bird with a white forehead and underparts, grey-brown upperparts, and a rufous to reddish-brown crown and hindneck in adult males. Females are duller, with a paler crown and hindneck and a light stripe on the face. In flight, the wing shows dark flight feathers and a white bar.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Charadriidae — Plovers

Breeding range

Australasia: Timor (e Lesser Sundas), inland and coastal Australia and Tasmania

Nonbreeding range

to e Java