The red-capped ploveroccur along virtually the entire Australian coastline, but they also occur in great numbers inland, especially around salt lakes. They usually inhabit wide, bare sand flats or mudflats at the margins of saline, brackish or freshwater wetlands where they forage by using their characteristic 'stop-run-peck' method, taking small invertebrates from the surface. Their speckled eggs are laid in a shallow depression in the ground, often beneath a low shrub, or out in the open if near water.

Scientific name: Charadrius ruficapillus