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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Birds
  5. Gulls, Buttonquails, Sandpipers, Plovers and Allies
  6. Plovers and Lapwings

family

Plovers and Lapwings

Charadriidae

Includes
9 native 1 introduced 8 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Holarctic Ringed Plovers and Allies 3 native
  • Golden Plovers and Black-bellied Plover 3 native
  • Sand-Plovers and Allies 3 native
  • Southern Ringed Plovers and Allies
  • Lapwings
  • Holarctic Ringed Plovers and Allies

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native plovers and lapwings All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Killdeer Charadrius vociferus 153,531 observations
  • Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola 56,826 observations
  • Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus 42,335 observations
  • Pacific Golden-Plover Pluvialis fulva 18,646 observations
  • Snowy Plover Anarhynchus nivosus 16,172 observations
  • Piping Plover Charadrius melodus 15,150 observations
  • American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica 7,290 observations
  • Wilson's Plover Anarhynchus wilsonia 6,815 observations
  • Mountain Plover Anarhynchus montanus 1,072 observations

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