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Common Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticula · Family Charadriidae
Charadrius hiaticula
Family Charadriidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Charadriidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,844,278
- Countries and territories with records
- 181
About this species
This species has 1,844,278 occurrence records from 181 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (25%), Denmark (11.6%), Norway (11.5%), the United Kingdom (10.2%) and the Netherlands (9.9%); together they account for 68.2% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.45% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Charadrius hiaticula combines the genus name Charadrius with the species epithet hiaticula. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Charadrius; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Charadrius vociferus, Charadrius semipalmatus and Charadrius melodus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 44 species of the family Charadriidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Charadrius vociferus. Its record count is 2.8 times the family average (660,385). The family Charadriidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.