Bengali: ছোট নথজিরিয়া
Scientific Name: Charadrius dubius
IUCN: Least Concern
Description: It is a small plover with grey-brown back and wings, a white belly and a white breast with one black neckband. They have a brown cap, a white forehead, a black mask around the eyes with striking yellow eye-ring and a short dark bill. Legs are dull pink-yellow. Does not show wing bar in flight.
Food: They eat insects and worms.
Habitat: Breeds on stony substrates around lakes, gravel pits, and along rivers; migrants occur in wide variety of fresh and brackish wetland habitats, but rarely out on open tidal areas.
Distribution: Distributed in Europe, central Asia, Middle East, central Africa, Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia.
