Kentish Plover

• GeneralIt breeds on the sand of busy tourist beaches, which threatens the species in Spain.
• conservaciónIt nests straight onto sandy beaches, hiding its eggs among pebbles and shells, which leaves it very vulnerable to people on a busy coast.
• Its nest is a scrape in the sand decorated with small shells and pebbles, and the eggs are so well camouflaged that the main cause of loss on tourist beaches is accidental treading, not predation.
• The female usually leaves the brood before the chicks can fly and pairs with another male for a second clutch, leaving the first to raise them alone: an uncommon system of sequential pairing.
• In Spain, fencing off breeding areas on beaches and clearing litter by hand instead of by machine are the measures that have worked wherever they have been applied.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Sandy beaches, salt pans, dunes, saltmarsh and brackish lagoons of Eurasia, Africa and the Americas

Sexual maturity

10.2 months

Gestation / incubation

24 days

Litter / clutch size

3

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarhynchus_alexandrinus