approximately 22 cm long and 90-130 g heavy becomes the Mornellregenpfeifer, also named "Mornells" shortly. It is characteristic plovers with white eye-strips and a white breast-bond.
Reproduction In the brood-dress, one can recognize Mornellregenpfeifer easily by its bay breast-plumage and the black stomach. Adult females have more varied and more colorful colors than male Mornells. The males determine the situation of the Nistplatzes and hatch also (in the majority of the observed cases) the nest existing from 3 (2-4) eggs for 21-26 days alone; they take care mainly alone also of the squabs. From time to time, however, also the females take part more or less strongly in the brood-business. Already on occasion, one could observe how female Mornells "provided" several males one after the other with nests.
Also with it perform courtship display retains Mornellregenpfeifer its "exchanged roles." The female is much more active, it hunts its select male around and shows a Singflug, with which it often is accompanied by the partner. Also the precinct-defense is incumbent on the female bird mainly.
Spread Mornellregenpfeifer brood in tundras and similar arctic and sub-arctic areas of Scotland, Northern Europe as far as to the Ural and North-Siberia as well as in more highly situated southern regions. So, Asia's mountains of Siberia offer as far as to the Mongolia, the Alps and also the Karpaten the Mornells here and there favorable brood-conditions. Even in the polders of the Dutch IJsselmeers, these plovers brood since 1961.
Otherwise, Mornells, after by sporadic brood-attempts, appear only on the draft of or to its winter-quarters (in the Mediterranean-area) also in Central Europe. North-Africa of the Moroccan Atlantic-coast as far as to the Arabic peninsula and Asia Minor as far as to the Iraq and west-Iran is the hibernation-area of all Mornellpopulationen, so that East-Siberian brood-birds 000 km wide up to 10, European animals against it "only" 3000 - 4000 km wide must move.
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