Kitlitz Plover

The little Kitlitz Plover has always fascinated me because of it habit to cover up its eggs when it sees danger approaching.
I filmed this one near Almans kraal dam on my way back from Eastern Cape

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I remember seeing these little guys along the coastlines of Natal and around Cape Town. I always thought their whirring legs were like the road runner in the cartoons, more so than real road runners themselves (who, when I first saw them in Texas disappointingly did not go "meep meep") :)