Black-fronted Dotterel

Unlike many other wading birds, Black-fronted Dotterels retain the same plumage all year round, which makes identification easier.

The Black-fronted Dotterel is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops) is a small, slender plover, widespread throughout most of Australia, to which it is native and New Zealand, where it self introduced in the 1950's. It is common in freshwater wetlands, around the edges of lakes and billabongs, and in shallow, temporary claypan pools. It is also found occupying saline mudflats and estuaries, but rarely. Unlike many other wading birds, Black-fronted Dotterels retain the same plumage all year round, which makes identification easier. More

Black-fronted Dotterel Size: 15-20cm Habitat: Lives all over Australia except for arid areas. It is usually seen on the edges of swamps, creeks and lakes foraging for insects, and small aquatic creatures. Notes: Head is brown and white with black band through eyes. Beak is red with black tip, neck is white, black band on chest body reddish patch on shoulder. Body brown underbody white. Breeds Spring-Summer. For more information on Black-fronted Dotterel see references. More

The Black-fronted Dotterel is normally seen in small numbers, usually in pairs, sometime alone and rarely more than five. However in winter they can form larger groups of a hundred or more. Alternative Name/s Black-fronted Plover Identification The Black-fronted Dotterel is a small wader with a distinctive black face-mask and breast-band and prominent chestnut scapulars (shoulder feathers). More

Unlike many other wading birds, Black-fronted Dotterels retain the same plumage all year round, which makes identification easier. The Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops) is a small, slender plover, widespread throughout most of Australia, to which it is native and New Zealand, where it self introduced in the 1950's. It is common in freshwater wetlands, around the edges of lakes and billabongs, and in shallow, temporary claypan pools. It is also found occupying saline mudflats and estuaries, but rarely. More

The Black-fronted Dotterel is normally seen in small numbers, usually in pairs, sometime alone and rarely more than five. However in winter they can form larger groups of a hundred or more. More

Morcombe it would appear that a Black-fronted Dotterel was the creator of the nest. No bird was noticed so it may be that the nest had been flooded and abandoned. These were taken below the school at Punmu, 14.09. More

Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops) by Ian Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops) by Ian Ian’s Bird of the Week – Black-fronted Dotterel ~ by Ian Montgomery It is easy to think of waders, such as sandpipers and plovers, in terms of challenges – both the survival challenges that long distant migrants face and the identification challenges that these migrants, usually in non-breeding plumage, pose for birders. More

Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops) Tamborine, SE Queensland, Australia Date April 1998(1998-04) Source Own work Author Aviceda Permission (Reusing this file) See below. More

be Black-fronted Dotterel, in fact 44 of them, one of the largest groups I've seen in Tasmania. Among them was a solitary Red-necked Stint and a Double-banded Plover. By the number of juvenile plumaged blackfronts, they've had a good year. I can still recall my first Tasmanian sighting of a blackfront. It was in the Tasmanian Midlands at Tunbridge. I was crossing the Tin Dish River (a stream) and flushed a bird from the stony shore. More

Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops ^ Gallery: Australian Birds Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Charadriidae Comments: 0 ^ File name: 2005-08-19_2266 Location: Mt. Carbine dam, North Queensland, Australia. More

Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops - Juvenile Black-fronted Dotterel Photographer : More

Black-fronted dotterel on nest = Black-fronted dotterel on nest Black-fronted dotterel on nest Black-fronted dotterels have a black band through the eyes, and another from the bill up the forehead. A V-shaped black band runs from shoulder to shoulder and down the breast. They nest on raised stony banks in riverbeds. These small dotterels have been breeding in New Zealand only since the late 1950s. More

Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops = Described by: Vieillot (1818) Alternate common name(s): Black-fronted Plover Old scientific name(s): Charadrius melanops Photographs Lake Samsonvale, Queensland, Australia - Nov 24, 2002 More

Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops) = French: Pluvier à face noire German: Schwarzstirn-Regenpfeifer Spanish: Chorlitejo Frentinegro Other common names: Black-fronted Plover Taxonomy: Charadrius melanops Vieillot, 1818, New South Wales. Often included in genus Charadrius. Monotypic. Distribution: Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. More

Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops. Photo taken near Cunnamulla, Queensland. * Black-fronted Dotterel by Alwyn Simple This photo was taken at the Hunter Wetlands at Shortland, Newcastle using a Nikon D-300 camera and an AF-S Nikkor 500mm f4G lens. More