The Egyptian Plover is marked by a black-and-white face and a blue-gray back and feeds along sandy, gravelly banks of large rivers.
Bold black-and-white markings cover the head and breast, above a blue-gray back and salmon-colored underparts.
It feeds on insects and other small invertebrates along sandy or gravelly riverbanks and makes a shallow scrape in the sand for its nest.
It usually lays 2–3 eggs in a shallow scrape in the sand.
It repeats a short tchep call, especially in flight.
Immatures are duller than adults. In flight, a striking black-and-white pattern shows in the outer wing.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.