Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

-Waders

CHARADRIIFORMES

Charadriidae

Pluvialis fulva
Grassy tundra.
N Russia and n Siberia from Yamal Pen. e to Chukotski Pen. and Anadyrland.
Along Bering Sea coast of Alaska from Wales s to Kuskokwim R.;
St Lawrence, Nunivak and Nelson islands. Breeds sympatrically with dominica in w Alaska.
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Pluvialis apricaria
Moors, bogs, swampy heath, wet and mossy tundra.
From Iceland, Faroe Is., British Isles, Scandinavia and n Europe e across
n Russia and n Siberia to Yamal Pen. and region e of lower Yenisei River. Sympatric with fulva in n Eurasia from the Yamal Pen. to e of the Yenisei River.
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Pluvialis squatarola
Tundra.
From nc Russia w to Kanin Pen., e across n Siberia incl. Kolguyev, s Novaya Zemlya, New Siberian and Wrangel islands, to Chukotski Pen. and Anadyrland. From n Alaska w to Point Barrow s to w Alaska at Hooper Bay and Nelson I.; from nw,nc Mackenzie and Banks, s Melville, Bathurst, Devon, Bylot and w,s Baffin is. s to Yukon R., s Victoria I., n Keewatin and Southampton and Coats islands.
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Pluvialis fulva

Pacific Golden Plover

scarce

winter: Iraq

Pluvialis apricaria

European Golden Plover

common

has bred: Spitsbergen,

Belgium, Netherlands,

Poland

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Pluvialis squatarola

Grey Plover

common

Vanellus spinosus
Lakes, marshes, flooded fields, sandy beaches. Senegambia, s Mauritania, s Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, s Niger, Nigeria, ne Cameroon, C. Afr. Rep., Chad, ne Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and s Arabia, ne,ce Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and n,e Tanzania.
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Vanellus tectus
Thorn bush, arid scrub.
Lowlands to 1200 m in Mauritania, Mali, Senegambia, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, n Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, s Niger, n Nigeria, ne Cameroon, C. Afr. Rep., s Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and s Somalia, ne Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
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Vanellus indicus
Marshes, rivers, rice stubble, farms, open forest.
From se Turkey, Iraq, s,e Iran, ne Arabia in Oman and s Turkmenia e through Afghanistan, Pakistan and India to sw China and Indochina s to n Malaya.
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