Species: Charadrius semipalmatus

Semipalmated Plover

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Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Craniata

Class

Aves

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Charadriidae

Genus

Charadrius

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Classification

Other Global Common Names

Batuíra-da-Bando - Chorlo Semipalmeado - pluvier semipalmé

Informal Taxonomy

Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Shorebirds

Formal Taxonomy

Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Charadriiformes - Charadriidae - Charadrius - represent two morphs of a single species.

Ecology and Life History

Migration

false - false - true - Migrates along coasts and commonly through interior North America. Arrives in U.S. by April-May during northward migration; reaches Alaska in May, arrives in many part of Beaufort Sea region in late May. Fall migration begins in late July; most have departed nesting areas by late August (Johnson and Herter 1989). Abundant migrant in Costa Rica early August-November and late March-early May (Stiles and Skutch 1989).

Non-migrant

false

Locally Migrant

false

Food Comments

In coastal areas forages often on intertidal sand or mud for marine worms, small mollusks and crustaceans, insect eggs and larvae. In inland areas consumes large numbers of grasshoppers and earthworms (Terres 1980).

Reproduction Comments

Breeding begins early June in south to late June in north. Both sexes, in turn, incubate 3-4 eggs, for 23- 25 days. Young precocial, tended by both parents, can fly at 22-31 days. Nests in loose colonies. At Churchill, Manitoba, nesting density was 0.01-4.00 (mean 0.36) pairs/ha in coastal areas, 0.03-140 (mean 1.26) pairs/ha at inland sites (Wilson Bull. 105:455-464).

Ecology Comments

Forages singly or in loose groups; roosts at high tide in compact flocks (Stiles and Skutch 1989).

Length

Weight

Conservation Status

NatureServe Global Status Rank

Global Status Last Reviewed

1996-11-25

Global Status Last Changed

1996-11-25

Other Status

LC - Least concern

Distribution

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Global Range

H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - BREEDS: western and northern Alaska across low arctic and boreal areas of northern Canada, south to Queen Charlotte Islands, James Bay, and Nova Scotia; also recorded nesting in Oregon. NORTHERN WINTER: from central California, coastally along Gulf of Mexico, and South Carolina south, including West Indies, to southern Argentina and Chile (Godfrey 1966); also Hawaiian Islands (uncommon). Nonbreeders often summer in wintering areas south at least to Panama and Colombia.

Global Range Code

Global Range Description

>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)

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