Oriental Plover

The oriental plover is a medium-sized plover, 21–25 centimetres long with a wingspan of 46–53 centimetres and a weight of about 95 grams; among the red-breasted Charadrius plovers it is relatively large, long-legged and long-winged. The breeding male has a white face, throat and forecrown, grey-brown hindcrown, hindneck and back, and a white belly marked off by a narrow black band and then a broad chestnut breast band. Females, juveniles and non-breeding males are generally grey-brown above with a white belly and a pale face with a white streak above the eye. (Wikipedia, general species account)

It breeds in Mongolia, eastern Russia and Manchuria, in dry steppes, deserts, arid grasslands and saltpans, and migrates through eastern China and Southeast Asia to spend the non-breeding season in Indonesia, New Guinea and northern Australia, on grasslands, salt-fields and coasts. It is rare in New Guinea and has strayed to New Zealand and Europe a handful of times. It is closely related to the Caspian plover. (Wikipedia, general species account)