Long-billed Plover
Thinornis placidus(Gray, JE; Gray, GR, 1863)
English (US) Long-billed Plover
The Long-billed Plover (Thinornis placidus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Charadriidae (Plovers and Lapwings) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds riverine temperate eastern Asia from southeastern Siberia and Japan through eastern China, and disjunctly northeastern India; winters central Nepal eastward to Korean Peninsula and Taiwan, and southward to central VietnamRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Thinornis placidus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Long-billed Plover
- Described by
- (Gray, JE; Gray, GR, 1863)
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Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Charadrius placidus
- Described by
- (Gray, JE; Gray, GR, 1863)
- Type locality
- Nepal.
- Original description
- Catalogue of the specimens and drawings of mammals, birds, reptiles, and fishes of Nepal and Tibet, presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., to the British Museum p.70
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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