On my recent trip to Sri Lanka I visited Chillaw Sand Spit yet again, my third visit to this area which is good for wading birds.  When I had been there before my guide had shown me  both Lesser and Greater Sand Plover so when I went back again this year and saw  some small 'charadrius' plovers I had a good look at the photographs afterwards hoping that again, I had been lucky enough to see this interesting and not all that common little plover. It seems to me that you could easily confuse this species with the Kentish Plover but that species always has a white collar around the back of the head and Lesser Sand Plover never does. So Lesser Sand Plover it is then!