Pied Plover

La historia

I made this photo of a Pied Plover (Hoploxypterus cayanus) at Reserva Natural Hato Berlín in Trinidad, Casanare, Colombia. The Pied Plover’s call is a kee-oo, with the second part lower in pitch. It lives along the shores of lakes and rivers where there is sand and mud. Hato Berlín is a civil-society nature reserve on the Casanare savanna, about 10 km from Trinidad, where capybaras, caimans, turtles, monkeys and savanna and marsh birds can be seen. IUCN lists the Pied Plover as Least Concern, with a stable population.

I used a Pentax K-1 with the HD Pentax-D FA 150-450mm f/4.5-5.6 for this one, at 1/640 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100. In 2020 Hato Berlín opened an eco-lodge as part of the Safari Llanero, a project led by the Casanare Chamber of Commerce with Swiss cooperation to strengthen wildlife-watching tourism.

El ave

The Pied Plover (Hoploxypterus cayanus) pertenece a la familia Charadriidae (Plovers and Lapwings) en la taxonomía eBird/Clements.

Fuente: eBird.org (se abre en una pestaña nueva)

Conservación

Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2024), with the population trend listed as stable. Fuente: Lista Roja de la UICN