Additional Information
English Grey Plover
Scientific (Pluvialis squatarola)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Charadriidae
Family (English) Plovers
Other name(s) Black-bellied Plover, Pluvier argenté
Regions NA, PAL
Breeding Range Subregions high (locally low) Arctic coasts and is. (except Ellesmere I., Greenland, Scandinavia and is. from Svalbard to Severnaya Zemlya)
Nonbreeding Range Subregions Worldwide, temperate to tropical coasts (except remote is.)
Countries (BETA) map Sweden,Cayman Islands,Somalia,Guinea,Seychelles,Nauru,Turks and Caicos Islands,Guyana,Mozambique,Czech Republic,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,South Africa,Peru,Indonesia,Argentina,Portugal,Nigeria,Netherlands Antilles,Japan,Latvia,Antigua and Barbuda,Turkey,Micronesia,Tunisia,Morocco,Malawi,Mauritius,Maldives,Brazil,Paraguay,Ecuador - mainland,Mali,Croatia,Virgin Islands,Jamaica,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Israel,Madagascar,India - mainland,Belize,Botswana,Namibia,Malta,Algeria,Bahamas,Taiwan,Serbia,Laos,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Thailand,Barbados,Singapore,Belarus,Netherlands,Vietnam,Niger,Ukraine,Romania,Cameroon,Greece,Germany,Belgium,Burkina Faso,Chile,Palestine,French Guiana,Haiti,Costa Rica,France,Kiribati,United Arab Emirates,Malaysia,Guam,Cambodia,Libya,Panama,Rwanda,North Korea,Uruguay,Syria,Benin,Puerto Rico,Mongolia,Hungary,Zambia,Trinidad and Tobago,Saint Lucia,Pakistan,Hong Kong,Sri Lanka,Suriname,China,Sierra Leone,Western Sahara,Estonia,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Guatemala,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Guinea-Bissau,Oman,Turkmenistan,Honduras,Ireland,Qatar,Nicaragua,Philippines,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Ghana,Mexico,Djibouti,Cook Islands,Marshall Islands,El Salvador,Slovakia,Tajikistan,South Korea,Solomon Islands,Poland,Togo,Cuba,Spain,Gabon,Kenya,Bolivia,Egypt,Australia,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Norway,Montserrat,Canada,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Dominican Republic,Papua New Guinea,Bermuda,Iran,Northern Mariana Islands,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Palau,Chad,Austria,Kazakhstan,Cape Verde,Jordan,Lesotho,Uganda,Zimbabwe,Sao Tome and Principe,Yemen,Colombia,Gambia,Liberia,Myanmar,Burundi,Bahrain,Reunion,Kuwait,Venezuela,Georgia,New Caledonia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Greenland,Denmark,Senegal,Albania,United States - Hawaii,United States - Alaska,British Virgin Islands,United States - mainland,Democratic Republic of Congo,Comoros,Congo,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,South Sudan,Montenegro,
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)
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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).
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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)