American Golden Plover
Pluvialis dominica
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Plovers and Lapwings (Charadriidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica) is a medium-sized plover. The genus name is Latin and means relating to rain, from pluvia, "rain". It was believed that golden plovers flocked when rain was imminent. The species name dominica refers to Santo Domingo, now Hispaniola, in the West Indies.
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Range and habitat
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 Argentina.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Argentina
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Germany
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Ireland
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Russia
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Spain
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: American 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.
