Red-capped Plover - male shading eggs at nest

Red-capped Plover - male shading eggs at nest (Charadrius ruficapillus). At a pond near Marble Bar, Pilbara, Western Australia. Both adults stood over the eggs shading rather than incubating as the temperature in the open was in the 50 to 60 degree range. A widespread plover, inhabiting both coastal and inland waterways, ponds, claypans, beaches and wetlands. Closely related to the worldwide Kentish Plover. Marble Bar has the longest heatwave known when for 160 consecutive days the temperature was above 100 deg F (38.7)

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Capped Charadrius Control Cooling Intelligence Nurture Plover Plovers Ruficapillus Shade Shading Temperature

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