SAND PLOVERS

The UK400 Club/British Birding Association now considers MONGOLIAN SAND PLOVER as a separate species to both LESSER and GREATER SAND PLOVER, based largely on the original paper/fieldwork here http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00635.x/abstract and many years of study by Erik Hirshfeld. Further references include Birding World 16: 377-385, 4: 399, 6: 369-372 & 6: 454-455; British Birds 93: 162-189; Dutch Birding 4: 113-130 & 5: 37-66 and in Alula 1/96: 28-33