Species: Pluvialis dominica
American Golden-Plover
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Charadriidae
Genus
Pluvialis
NatureServe
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 - .
Ecology and Life History
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
Conservation Status
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>
Distribution
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)