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Bakewell, D.; Kennerley, P. 2008. Malaysia's mystery plover (part III). Suara Enggang 16(2): 7-15.
Bamford, M.J., Watkins, D.G., Bancroft, W., Tischler, G. and Wahl. J. 2008. Migratory shorebirds of the East Asian-Australasian flyway: population estimates and important sites. Wetlands International.
Chandler, R. 2009. Shorebirds of the Northern Hemisphere. Christopher Helm, London.
Crossland, A. C., Sitorus, A. W. 2014. Recent observations of White-faced Plover Charadrius dealbatus and three other small plovers on the coast of North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. Stilt 65: 29-35.
Eaton, J.A., van Balen, B., Brickle, N.W. and Rheindt, F.E. 2021. Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea. Second Edition. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
eBird. 2022. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. Ithaca, New York. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: http://www.ebird.org.
Iqbal, M., Mulyono, H., Kadarisman, R.,and Surahman. 2010. A new southernmost record of White-faced Plover Charadrius dealbatus. Wader Study Group Bulletin 117(3): 190-191.
IUCN. 2023. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 07 December 2023).
Kennerley, P. R.; Bakewell, D. N.; Round, P. D. 2008. Rediscovery of a long-lost Charadrius plover from South-East Asia. Forktail 24: 63-79.
Rheindt, F. E., Székely, T., Edwards, S. V., Lee, P. L. M., Burke, T., Kennerley, P. R., Bakewell, D. N., Alrashidi, M., Kosztolányi, A., Weston, M. A., Wei-Ting Liu, Wei-Ting Lei, Yoshimitsu Shigeta, Javed, S., Zefania, S., Küpper, C. 2011. Conflict between Genetic and Phenotypic Differentiation: The Evolutionary History of a ‘Lost and Rediscovered’ Shorebird. PLoS ONE 6(11): e26995.
Wang, X., Que, P., Heckel, G., Hu, J., Zhang, X., Chiang, C-Y., Zhang, N. et al.. 2019. Genetic, phenotypic and ecological differentiation suggests incipient speciation in two Charadrius plovers along the Chinese coast. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19: 135.
Wetlands International. 2017. Waterbird Population Estimates. Available at: https://wpe.wetlands.org. (Accessed: 13/02/2017).
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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: White-faced Plover Charadrius dealbatus. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/white-faced-plover-charadrius-dealbatus on 27/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 27/12/2024.