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Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusBonaparte, 1825
Native
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Charadriidae
- Genus
- Charadrius
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The semipalmated plover is a small plover. Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys. The specific semipalmatus is Latin and comes from semi, "half" and palma, "palm". Like the English name, this refers to its only partially webbed feet.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Inland high Arctic to extreme north-east Russia and subarctic Alaska and Canada: east Chukotskiy Pen. (north-east Russia), central and east Aleutian Is., all Alaskan mainland and north-west British Columbia to Banks and Baffin is., south to west James Bay, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia (north-west to north-east and south-east Canada)
- Non-breeding range
- Coastal from Oregon and New Jersey (north-west and east-central USA) south to north Chile and east-central Argentina; also Bermuda, throughout West Indies and Galápagos
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
2 photos
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