This plover lives only on St Helena. It has thin, long legs and remains throughout the year in open grassland and other open parts of the island.
It is larger than the Kittlitz’s plover, with longer legs and bill. Its legs are conspicuously thin.
It lives in open parts of the island, including dry, flat pasture, and eats small invertebrates such as beetles and caterpillars.
It pauses for several seconds, then darts across the ground to inspect a new feeding spot or catch small prey it has seen.
Both parents share incubation and care of the young.
Chicks hatch with down and long legs and feed themselves. Adults guide them to food and guard them, mobbing predators or feigning injury. The chicks crouch motionless against the ground to hide.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.