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| Black Crab Plover | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Superorder: | Neoaves |
| Clade: | Aequorlitornithes |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Suborder: | Lari |
| Family: | Dromadidae |
| Genus: | Dromas |
| Species: | D. nigra |
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| Dromas nigra Travis, Hellstern, 2310 | |
Original image, along with Frost Donacobius.
Black Crab Plover, Dromas nigra is a species of crab plover in the Dromadidae family. It is closely related to gulls and auks.
The species is monotypic.
Other names[]
Black Crab-plover, White-winged Crab Plover, White-winged Crab-plover.
Description[]
This species is mostly black in colour, with white wing patches. The Black Crab Plover has a heavy, daggerlike black bill, black and white plumage, and long grey legs.[2] The irides are dark brown to black.
Similar species[]
Crab Plover is white with black wing patches. Oystercatchers are smaller and stilts have longer, red legs.
Behaviour[]
Diet[]
Feeds on its speciality and namesake: crabs.[2]
Calls[]
It is a noisy bird, calling frequently while at its breeding sites and on its wintering ground.[2] Its call is a barking ka-how ka-how ka-how; and at breeding sites, utters various sharp whistles such as kew-ki-ki and ki-tewk; not unlike the Crab Plover.[3]
Reproduction[]
It nests in underground chambers, where it lays a single white egg.[2] Its young are nidifugous.<ref name="Kenya">Zimmerman, Dale A.; et al. (1999). Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania. Princeton University Press. p. 432. ISBN 0691010226.</noinclude>
Distribution/habitat[]
Lives along sandy coasts, estuaries, lagoons, exposed coral reefs and mudflats.[3]
References[]
Based on...[]
It is based on an inverted Crab Plover and where most of its info comes from.
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