Species: Pluvialis dominica

American Golden-Plover
Species
    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Aves

    Order

    Charadriiformes

    Family

    Charadriidae

    Genus

    Pluvialis

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    Batuiruçu - Chorlo Dominico, Playero Dorado - pluvier bronzé
    Informal Taxonomy
    <p>Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Shorebirds</p>
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Charadriiformes - Charadriidae - Pluvialis - .
    Migration
    <p>false - false - true - Arrives in U.S. March-April, in northern breeding areas late May-early June. Rare fall migrant in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands August-December (Raffaele 1983). Southward migration occurs mostly over oceans; northward migration through Middle America and from the Rockies to the Mississippi Valley. Young remain on tundra until around mid-August, at which time they form flocks and begin to migrate. In fall, Nova Scotia is a staging area for many that migrate to South America (but some may pass over Maritime provinces and fly nonstop from to South America). Amazonia apparently is an important migratory route (Stotz et al. 1992).</p>
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    false
    Food Comments
    Feeds primarily on insects (grasshoppers, crickets, grubs of beetles, caterpillars, cutworms, wireworms, etc.). Also eats some small mollusks and crustaceans.
    Reproduction Comments
    Breeding begins late May in south to early or mid-June in north (Harrison 1978). Usually 4 eggs are incubated (by male during the day, by female at night) for 26 days (Terres 1980). Young are precocial, tended by both adults. Monogamous. Some begin breeding at 1 year.
    Length
    27
    Weight
    145
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    2005-09-12
    Global Status Last Changed
    1996-11-25
    Other Status

    <p>LC - Least concern</p>

    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - BREEDS: northern North America, from Baffin Island in Canada west to western Alaska. NORTHERN WINTER: Bolivia, Uruguay, and southern Brazil south to northern Chile and northern Argentina (some present in Central and South America in northern summer).
    Global Range Code
    H
    Global Range Description
    >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)
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