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English Grey Plover Scientific (Pluvialis squatarola) Order CHARADRIIFORMES Family (Latin) Charadriidae Family (English) Plovers Other name(s) Black-bellied Plover, Pluvier argenté Breeding Regions NA, PAL Breeding Range high (locally low) Arctic coasts and is. (except Ellesmere I., Greenland, Scandinavia and is. from Svalbard to Severnaya Zemlya) Nonbreeding Range Worldwide, temperate to tropical coasts (except remote is.) Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Antigua and Barbuda,Argentina,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan, IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range squatarola high Arctic coasts from nw Russia to Chukotskiy Pen. (including New Siberian Is., n of ec Siberia) and w, n Alaska tomkovichi Wrangel I. (n of ne Siberia) cynosurae nc to ne high Arctic Canada coast and is. to Baffin I. (except Ellesmere and satellites)
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet ) Described by (Linnaeus, 1758) German Kiebitzregenpfeifer French Pluvier argenté Chinese 灰斑鸻 Japanese ダイゼン Russian Тулес Spanish Chorlito gris Portuguese tarambola-cinzenta Bird Data App text Once called the Black-bellied Plover because of black belly in breeding plumage. The non-breeding Grey Plover looks a lot like the non-breeding [American Golden Plover], but check for a thin eyebrow, and black feathers inside the wing where it meets the body (axillaries) (Birds of Costa Rica).
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara) AN Antarctica AO Atlantic Ocean AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan) IO Indian Ocean LA Latin America (Middle and South America) MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama) NA North America (includes the Caribbean) NO Northern oceans OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas) PO Pacific Ocean SA South America SO Southern oceans TO Temperate oceans TrO Tropical oceans Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes EX Extinct EW Extinct in the wild CR Critically Endangered EN Endangered VU Vulnerable NT Near Threatened LC Least Concern DD Data deficient NE Not evaluated PE Probably extinct (informal) PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)
