Mountain Plover
Anarhynchus montanus(Townsend, JK, 1837)
English (US) Mountain Plover
The Mountain Plover (Anarhynchus montanus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Charadriidae (Plovers and Lapwings) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds locally Great Plains of southwestern Canada to northeastern Utah and western Texas (southwestern USA); winters to inland central California, southern Arizona to southern Texas, and northern Baja California (northwestern Mexico)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Anarhynchus montanus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Mountain Plover
- Described by
- (Townsend, JK, 1837)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Charadrius montanus
- Described by
- (Townsend, JK, 1837)
- Type locality
- Central tableland of the Rocky Mountains = near Sweetwater River, Wyoming.
- Original description
- Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7 p.192
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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