Pacific Golden Plover
Pluvialis fulva
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Plovers and Lapwings (Charadriidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The Pacific golden plover (Pluvialis fulva) is a migratory shorebird that breeds during summer in Alaska and Siberia. During nonbreeding season, this medium-sized plover migrates widely across the Pacific.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds Arctic and subarctic Russia from Yamal Peninsula eastward to Chukotskiy Peninsula and northern Kamchatka and Bering Sea coasts of western Alaska; winters to coastal Horn of Africa and Indian subcontinent eastward through Taiwan and Indonesian Archipelago throughout Australasia and Micronesia to eastern Polynesia; widely vagrant elsewhere.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Continents
Countries
- Australia
- Austria
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- Christmas Island
- Cook Islands
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Gabon
- Germany
- Greece
- Guam
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Norfolk Island
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestine
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Poland
- Russia
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Pacific golden 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.
