Adult males in breeding have a white forehead, lower face, breast, and belly.

Juveniles resemble non-breeding adults but with brown breastbands, a darker face, and buffy fringes on the upperparts feathers.

[6] The two-banded plover is found on the Falkland Islands and coastally to somewhat inland in Argentina, Uruguay, extreme southeastern Brazil, and central and southern Chile.

It inhabits gravel shores, sand beaches, wet savanna, and short grasslands, usually near streams or ponds both fresh and brackish.

[6] A small part of the Chilean and Argentinian populations of two-banded plover are year-round residents.

Its diet is mostly small invertebrates including polychaetes, bivalves, gastropods, insects, and spiders.

What is believed to be the two-banded plover's display song is "a repeated phrase of 2–3 mellow notes followed by a gravelly trill, e.g.