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Magellanic plover
Order:
Charadriiformes
Family: Pluvianellidae
1 species
Southern South America; open habitats and shores;
20 cm; streaked with gray; noticeable red eye;
feed on invertebrates;
clutch 2 eggs but usually only one chick raised; both parents feed chick by regurgitation; similar to Chionididae.
(Image taken from Hayman, P. J. Marchant, and Tony Prater. Shorebirds. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 1986).