Stubby in appearance, it can be confused with the Little Plover, from which it can be clearly distinguished in flight by the white stripe on the wings and black tips. It has a white body except for the back and upper part of the wings, which are greyish brown. The head pattern is also different to its relative the Little Plover too. It has a full and wider black collar on the breast, and the stripe on the forehead is also wider. The eye ring, although yellowish, is hardly visible.\u00a0 The female does not have this complete eye-ring pattern, and the black is replaced by dark brown feathers like those of the hood. In summer, its beak and legs are orange, the former with a black tip. In winter, the pattern becomes blurred, disappearing the black on the forehead disappears but a differentiating group of feathers over the eye like a long eyebrow remain, at this time the legs also become less striking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1175,"template":"","families":[18],"places":[16,11],"affinity_group":[14],"class_list":["post-942","birds","type-birds","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","families-charadriidae","places-cerrillos","places-salinas-viejas","affinity_group-waders"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n