Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatus
- Family
- Plovers and Lapwings (Charadriidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The semipalmated plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) is a small plover. Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, "ravine"). The specific semipalmatus is Latin and comes from semi, "half" and palma, "palm".
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Range and habitat
Breeds inland high Arctic from Chukotskiy Peninsula (northeastern Russia) eastward through Aleutian Islands and across Canada to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia (southeastern Canada); winters coastally from Oregon and New Jersey southward to northern Chile and northern Argentina; also West Indies and Galápagos.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Fiji
- French Guiana
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Russia
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Spain
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Semipalmated plover
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
