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English American Golden Plover
Scientific (Pluvialis dominica)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Charadriidae
Family (English) Plovers
Other name(s) Lesser Golden Plover, American Golden-Plover, Pluvier doré américain
Breeding Regions NA
Breeding Range Subregions high Arctic to subarctic, Alaska and n, ne Canada: nw, n, e Alaska, Yukon to nc British Columbia e to w Hudson Bay and Baffin I. (ne Canada)
Nonbreeding Range Subregions coastal se Brazil and inland grassland, Paraguay to ec Argentina and coastal se Argentina
Countries (BETA)map Argentina,Barbados,Belize,Bermuda,Bolivia,Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Canada,Chile,Colombia, Costa Rica,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - mainland,El Salvador,French Guiana,Guatemala,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Mexico, Montserrat,Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Panama,Paraguay,Peru,Suriname,Trinidad and Tobago,United States - Alaska,United States - mainland, Uruguay,Venezuela,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Mueller, PLS, 1776)
German Prärie-Goldregenpfeifer
French Pluvier bronzé
Chinese 美洲金鸻
Japanese アメリカムナグロ
Russian Американская ржанка
Spanish Chorlito dorado americano
Portuguese batuiruçu
Bird Data App text Golden Plovers have gold feathers on the back in breeding plumage. The similar [Grey Plover] does not.
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, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
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)