Known to birders as a good species many years before it was even named, this bird was first described as a species in 1870, but was fairly quickly lumped with Kentish
Plover, and remained so until after 2010. Even books in the 1980's/1990's sometimes referred to it as an undescribed species, because, despite DNA studies etc. it looks different.
Breeding in South-east China including Taiwan, it migrates to areas where it overlaps with Malaysian Plover, but primarily further east. The jizz appears different, particularly
the head shape, and the white "face" is accentuated particularly in non-breeding plumage.
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