🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Egyptian Plover live?

Pluvianus aegyptius has 4,016 records in 33 countries and territories, from 1838 to 2026. Most records come from Senegal.

Egyptian Plover
Egyptian Plover β€” Photo: Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Β· CC BY-SA 2.0 Β· Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesPluvianidaePluvianus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. 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.

Records over time

18382026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Senegal 1,107
Gambia 792
Ghana 601
Nigeria 346
Benin 181
Sudan 157
Cameroon 148
Ethiopia 118
Mali 103
Niger 85
Chad 61
Guinea 45
Sierra Leone 43
Burkina Faso 27
DR Congo 25
Angola 24
Central African Republic 24
Guinea-Bissau 20
Congo 17
Netherlands 15
Uganda 15
Togo 13
Mauritania 8
Egypt 6
Spain 6
South Sudan 6
Belgium 5
CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 5
France 4
United States 3
Kenya 2
Liberia 2
ZZ 2
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.