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American Golden-Plover
Chorlito Dorado
Pluvialis dominica
The American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica) is a medium-sized plover. The genus name is Latin and means relating to rain, from pluvia, "rain". It was believed that golden plovers flocked when rain was imminent. The species name dominica refers to Santo Domingo, now Hispaniola, in the West Indies.
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Sound recorded by Christiana Fattorelli · XC1056711 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Visualization by Stichting Xeno-canto voor Natuurgeluiden.
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About the American Golden-Plover
This atlas includes American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) with atlas status “Accidental / vagrant” within scope “Avibase inferred core 380.” Global trait data associate it primarily with grassland; consult the linked records to resolve its Puerto Rico habitat use.
Conservation
Least Concern
IUCN LC
- Global IUCN
- LC
- Puerto Rico DNER
- No current listing in source crosswalk
- Federal ESA
- No current listing in source crosswalk
- Critical habitat
- Not identified in source crosswalk
Natural history
How it lives
- Habitat
- grasslands
- Elevation
- 0–4000 m
- Nest
- Scrape · Ground
- Clutch
- 3–4 eggs
- Social behavior
- Not resolved
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