Description
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Length: 40-44 cm. Plumage: brownish black to black above to chest; tip of tail black; white below and on back, rump and base of tail feathers; white band in rear of wing; white stripe at base of throat in non-breeding plumage and young birds. Immature browner than adult. Bare parts: iris red; bill orange-red, brown in immature; eyering orange-red ; feet and legs robust, pink, greyer in immature. Habitat: mainly sandy marine beaches. Palearctic migrant. <389><391><393>
- license
- cc-by-4.0
- copyright
- WoRMS Editorial Board
- bibliographic citation
- Urban, E. K.; Fry, C. H.; Keith, S. (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. <em>Academic Press, London.</em>
- contributor
- Edward Vanden Berghe [email]
