{"id":24595,"date":"2012-10-30T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/waders\/kentish-plover-charadrius-alexandrinus\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:13:12","slug":"kentish-plover-charadrius-alexandrinus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/waders\/kentish-plover-charadrius-alexandrinus\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, is a small wader in the plover bird family. It breeds in most subtropical and tropical parts of the world, from southern Europe to Japan and in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the southern USA and the Caribbean. The breeding birds in warmer countries are largely sedentary, but northern and inland populations are migratory, wintering south to the tropics.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Kentish Plover\u00a0<i>Charadrius\u00a0alexandrinus<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-154-24595\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-8465\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/kentish-plover-charadrius-alexandrinus\/kentish_plover_0.jpg\" title=\"Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) (02)\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) (02)\" alt=\"Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) (02)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/kentish-plover-charadrius-alexandrinus\/thumbs\/thumbs_kentish_plover_0.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) (02)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1043\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/kentish-plover-charadrius-alexandrinus\/kentish-plover-charadrius-alexandrinus.jpg\" title=\"Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) at s&#039;Albufeira Marsh, Mallorca, Spain\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) at s&#039;Albufeira Marsh, Mallorca, Spain\" alt=\"Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) (01)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/kentish-plover-charadrius-alexandrinus\/thumbs\/thumbs_kentish-plover-charadrius-alexandrinus.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) (01)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, is a small wader in the plover bird family. It breeds in most subtropical and tropical parts of the world, from southern Europe to Japan and in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the southern USA and the Caribbean. The breeding birds in warmer countries are largely sedentary, but northern and inland populations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":837554,"parent":17620,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[1659,1025],"class_list":["post-24595","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-charadrius-alexandrinus","tag-kentish-plover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24595\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}