Passage migrant which has bred.

Little Ringed Plovers are recent colonisers of Britain, breeding for the first time in the Country at Tring Reservoirs in 1938. Their natural breeding habitats are river shingle and sand spits, in Britain they use gravel pits, tips, industrial sites, sewage works and reservoir margins, two of these habitats have been used as breeding sites in Stevenage.

Successful breeding was recorded from Stevenage in 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 and, 1981 at an unrecorded location. 

Between 1983 and 1992 Little Ringed Plovers were present at the former Stevenage Development Corporation Tip at Norton Green with breeding confirmed from there in 1984, (when two pairs raised three juveniles), and 1989. The earlier records may also relate to this site. “Off road” vehicle driving eventually caused their abandonment of this site and they began using nearby demolished factory sites. In 1993 two pairs raised four young at the former Kodak factory site and returned again in 1994 to this site and the former George W. King factory site. Unfortunately, the George W. King site has since been redeveloped as the Stevenage Leisure Park. A pair returned to the Kodak site in 1996 but did not breed. On 29 March 2008 a passage bird was seen at Norton Green Tip. 

Passage birds have also been seen at Fairlands Valley Lakes; 14 and 20 May 1980, 29 June 1995 (when an immature was seen), 13 June 2008 (when two were seen on the bed of the drained Main Lake), up to three seen from 3 to 8 June 2009 (again whilst the lake was still drained), one on 23 March 2019 and two on 13 July 2022.

One was seen at the pond behind Norton Green Cottage (now the site of Pigeonswick Close) on 15 April 2015.