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Where does the Black-bellied Plover live?

Pluvialis squatarola has 2,520,026 records in 226 countries and territories, from 1838 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Black-bellied Plover
Black-bellied Plover — Chuck Homler, Focus On Wildlife / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesCharadriidaePluvialis

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. 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 1,282,799
Canada 229,172
Sweden 187,786
Denmark 92,458
United Kingdom 79,697
Spain 61,193
France 57,735
Taiwan 41,377
Portugal 39,100
Mexico 36,381
Netherlands 36,380
Norway 31,074
Australia 27,047
South Africa 19,412
Belgium 14,289
Costa Rica 13,735
Puerto Rico 12,849
India 10,900
Germany 8,731
Estonia 8,200
United Arab Emirates 8,082
Japan 7,700
Italy 7,401
China 6,985
Bahamas 6,748
Panama 6,731
Cuba 6,525
Belize 6,427
Thailand 6,367
Greece 5,907
Peru 5,883
Chile 5,812
Türkiye 5,428
Israel 5,176
Colombia 5,145
Brazil 4,895
Venezuela 4,572
Poland 4,541
Ecuador 4,369
Finland 4,154

Showing the top 40 of 226 places.

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