ABSTRACT
The Crab Plover is a non-breeding migrant to Kenya. A winter visitor, mainly Aug-Apr to the coast. Flocks of up to 400 winter on extensive mud flats in the Lamu archipelago 91B and in Mida Creek 102B, with rather smaller numbers regular in many other areas. Very small numbers occur along the coast during the Oct-Nov migration, but J. S. Ash suggests that, for the Somali coast at least, the N movement appears to take place mostly far offshore, with at least some nocturnal flights. Small numbers oversummer annually and MPG mention breeding in the Kilifi 102D and Sabaki 103A areas, but this and all subsequent records have involved juveniles which, although often dependent on their parents for food, are free-flying: until nest burrows or truly flightless young are found, it should be assumed that these juveniles have migrated from breeding grounds far to the N or NE.
