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title: "Three-banded Plover"
description: "Thinornis tricollaris — Ptaki. The three-banded plover, or three-banded sandplover (Charadrius tricollaris, syn.: Thinornis tricollaris), is a small wader."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/three-banded-plover
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Three-banded Plover

> Thinornis tricollaris — Ptaki. The three-banded plover, or three-banded sandplover (Charadrius tricollaris, syn.: Thinornis tricollaris), is a small wader.

- Scientific name: *Thinornis tricollaris*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 5269
- iNaturalist taxon: [1580335](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1580335)

## Names

- en: Three-banded Plover
- de: Dreibandregenpfeifer
- es: Chorlitejo tricollar
- fr: Pluvier à triple collier

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (3531), KE (405), TZ (326), NA (275), ZM (104), ZW (102), BW (88), ET (71), MW (39), MG (38), UG (27), MZ (21)

## Summary

The three-banded plover, or three-banded sandplover (Charadrius tricollaris, syn.: Thinornis tricollaris), is a small wader. This  plover is resident and generally sedentary in much of East Africa, southern Africa and Madagascar. It occurs mainly on inland rivers, pools, lakes and pans, frequenting their exposed shores. This species is often seen as single individuals, but it will form small flocks. It hunts by sight for insects, worms and other invertebrates. Three-banded plovers have a sharp whistled weeet-weet call. Its larger and darker-plumaged sister species, Forbes's plover, replaces it in West Africa and in…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-banded_plover

## Photo

![Three-banded Plover](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/three-banded-plover/medium.jpg)

Photo: Kelly Abram · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/348938869

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/three-banded-plover?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).