American Golden Plover
Pluvialis dominica(Müller, PLS, 1776)
English (US) American Golden Plover
The American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica) 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 high Arctic to subarctic from northern Alaska eastward to northeastern Canada, and southward to north-central British Colombia; winters coastal southeastern Brazil and Argentina, and inland grassland, Paraguay to east-central ArgentinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pluvialis dominica
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- American Golden Plover
- Described by
- (Müller, PLS, 1776)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Charadrius Dominicius
- Described by
- (Müller, PLS, 1776)
- Type locality
- Hispaniola.
- Original description
- Des Ritters Carl von Linné ... vollständigen Natursystems Supplements- und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs p.116
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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