Pluvialis

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Pluvialis
Pluvialis dominica1.jpg
American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Charadriidae
Subfamily: Charadriinae
Genus: Pluvialis
Brisson, 1760
Type species
Charadrius apricarius
(= Pluvialis apricaria )
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Pluvialis is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds comprising four species that breed in the temperate or Arctic Northern Hemisphere.

In breeding plumage, they all have largely black underparts, and golden or silvery upperparts. They have relatively short bills and feed mainly on insects, worms or other invertebrates, depending on habitat, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups. They hunt by sight, rather than by feel as do longer-billed waders.

Taxonomy

The genus Pluvialis was described by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the European golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria) as the type species. [1] [2] The genus name is Latin and means relating to rain, from pluvia, "rain". It was believed that they flocked when rain was imminent. [3]

The genus contains four species: [4]

Breeding PlumageNon-breeding PlumageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Rohkunborri Pluvialis Apricaria.jpg Pluvialis apricaria -Iceland-8.jpg European golden plover Pluvialis apricariaArctic tundra and other palearctic areas
Pluvialis fulva.JPG Pluvialis fulva 4 - Boat Harbour.jpg Pacific golden plover Pluvialis fulvaArctic regions of Siberia and Alaska
Pluvialis dominica1.jpg Pluvialis dominica.jpg American golden plover Pluvialis dominicaArctic tundra from northern Canada and Alaska.
Black-bellied Plover RWD 2015b.jpg Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) RWD.jpg Grey plover or black-bellied ploverPluvialis squatarolacosmopolitan

The American and Pacific golden plovers were formerly considered conspecific as "lesser golden plover". [5]

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References

  1. Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. Vol. 1, p. 46, Vol. 5, p. 42.
  2. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1934). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 244.
  3. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p.  311. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Buttonquail, plovers, seedsnipe, sandpipers". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  5. Sangster, George; Knox, Alan G.; Helbig, Andreas J.; Parkin, David T. (2002). "Taxonomic recommendations for European birds". Ibis. 144 (1): 153–159. doi:10.1046/j.0019-1019.2001.00026.x.