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Common ringed plover

Close-up of a juvie ringed plover sitting behind a rock on a beach. The picture is zoomed in, making the rock in front of them and the rocks behind out of focus, while the face and feathers are sharp.The beak is short, going from orange to dark brown. The stomach and chin/neck are white, and the head and bacj are speckled brown. There's half of a darker brown band around the neck, a slightly darker brown band underneath the eyes, and a white and beige stripe above.

17. August 2023

Varanger, Norway

Common ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula) foraging for food by the shoreline by Nesseby church in Varanger (Finnmark, Norway), photographed in August 2023.

The ringed plovers that breed here in Varanger overwinter in Africa, south of the Sahara (different from the ones that breed in the south of Norway, which overwinter in Europe).

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