This plover is restricted to Madagascar. A bold black band crosses its breast, and it searches for food on coastal mud and around saline lagoons.
A bold black band crosses the breast.
It forages on intertidal mud, open mud in mangroves, and silty river mouths. It sometimes feeds alongside other coastal plovers.
In the 2002–2005 western Madagascar study, both parents lined shallow scrapes in grassland or dry mud with plant fragments and sometimes stones or shell. Both defended the nest area against other plovers.
In the 2002–2005 study, 84 of 104 egg clutches contained two eggs and 20 contained one. At three closely followed nests, hatching occurred 26–28 days after the last egg was laid.
For 12 chicks followed to flight in the 2002–2005 study, the final observation when they could not fly was at ages 27–37 days. They were confirmed flying one to five days later.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.