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Pacific Golden Plover
Pluvialis fulva · Family Charadriidae
Pluvialis fulva
Family Charadriidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Charadriidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 433,946
- Countries and territories with records
- 142
About this species
This species has 433,946 occurrence records from 142 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (33.3%), Taiwan (19.2%), Australia (15%), India (8%) and Mongolia (3.2%); together they account for 78.7% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.013% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pluvialis fulva combines the genus name Pluvialis with the species epithet fulva. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Pluvialis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pluvialis squatarola, Pluvialis apricaria and Pluvialis dominica.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 44 species of the family Charadriidae. This species ranks 12th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Charadrius vociferus. Its record count is 65.7% of the family average (660,385). The family Charadriidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.