Little ringed plover Charadrius dubius

Small brown and white wader with black breast and yellow eye-ring

Habitat: inland freshwater, rivers and gravel pits

Uncommon summer visitor to Britain; winters in mid–Africa

Brown upperparts, white below, black on face and breast; yellowish legs and eye-ring

Typical plover feeding action of run-stop-run

Eats molluscs and insects; in flight shows no wing-bar

Nest is a bare scrape on ground

1 or 2 broods March – June; 4 buff eggs, spotted brown