Eurasian Dotterel
Eudromias morinellus
- Family
- Plovers and Lapwings (Charadriidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The Eurasian dotterel (Eudromias morinellus), also known in Europe as just dotterel, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. It is the only species placed in the genus Eudromias.
The dotterel is a brown-and-black-streaked bird with a broad, white eye stripe and an orange-red chest band when in breeding plumage. The female is more colourful than the male.
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Range and habitat
Breeds high Arctic coastal tundra and alpine zone, from northern British Isles and Scandinavia eastward to Chukotskiy Peninsula and western Alaska; in south locally from Pyrenees through montane Mongolia; winters from Iberian Peninsula and northern Africa eastward to Arabian Peninsula and Iraq.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Continents
Countries
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- China
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Finland
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Yemen
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Eurasian dotterel
- 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.
