Caspian Plover
Anarhynchus asiaticus
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Plovers and Lapwings (Charadriidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The Caspian plover (Anarhynchus asiaticus) is a wader in the plover family of birds. The specific asiaticus is Latin and means "Asian", although in binomials it usually means the type locality was India.
This plover breeds in western and central Asia and migrates southward to eastern and southern Africa to escape the northern winter.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds central Asia from southwestern Russia and Turkmenistan eastward to northwestern Xinjiang; winters inland Kenya to south-central Africa.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Afghanistan
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Botswana
- Burundi
- China
- Denmark
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Germany
- Greece
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Oman
- Palestine
- Poland
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Tanzania
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Caspian plover
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
