๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Pacific Golden-Plover live?

Pluvialis fulva has 430,812 records in 139 countries and territories, from 1839 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Pacific Golden-Plover
Pacific Golden-Plover โ€” Bering Land Bridge National Preserve / CC BY 2.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesCharadriidaePluvialis

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 143,885
Taiwan 83,243
Australia 64,590
India 34,830
Mongolia 13,841
Thailand 11,722
Japan 5,654
Philippines 5,398
New Zealand 4,875
Sri Lanka 4,864
China 4,403
Malaysia 4,013
Singapore 3,806
Sweden 3,511
United Arab Emirates 3,155
Netherlands 2,973
Hong Kong 2,746
Indonesia 2,680
United States Minor Outlying Islands 2,610
Canada 2,339
Palau 2,215
Northern Mariana Islands 1,761
Oman 1,668
Fiji 1,568
Guam 1,326
Russia 1,047
United Kingdom 964
Spain 906
Norfolk Island 842
Papua New Guinea 761
French Polynesia 759
Cambodia 739
Vanuatu 657
South Korea 570
Bangladesh 535
Samoa 517
Belgium 474
Micronesia 439
Marshall Islands 439
Norway 430

Showing the top 40 of 139 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.