Caspian Plover

The Caspian plover is a wader in the plover family, slimmer and longer-legged than the sand plovers, with a much stronger white eyebrow and a long thin bill. It lacks white tail sides and has only a weak wing bar. Summer males have grey-brown backs and a white face and belly, and the breast is chestnut bordered black below. The call is a sharp chip (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds in western and central Asia, in steppes, desert verges, saltpans and saline soils among sparse shrubby vegetation up to about 800 m, mainly north and east of the Caspian Sea, in loose colonies with three eggs laid on bare ground or among short vegetation. After breeding it migrates to eastern and southern Africa, as far as the Zambezi. The cached account does not describe its occurrence in India. SoIB 2023 lists it as a winter migrant of open habitat that eats invertebrates, without a priority category (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).