Bush Stone-curlew
In a zoo
Murray Mallee Region
Black-fronted Dotterel
Posterior
 
                      
Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)
Order: Coastal Birds (Charadriiformes)
Family: Plover (Charadriidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops)
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Synonym: Charadrius melanops

Thank you George Seagull for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere

Copyright © 2015-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 08-Apr-2015
This species is classed as RA (Rare) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)