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Charadrius nivosus (Snowy Plover)

Wikipedia Abstract

The snowy plover (Charadrius nivosus) is a small wader in the plover bird family. It breeds in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the southern and western United States and the Caribbean. Long considered to be a subspecies of the Kentish plover, it is now known to be a distinct species.
View Wikipedia Record: Charadrius nivosus

Infraspecies

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  45 grams
Birth Weight [1]  6 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries, Saline lakes
Wintering Geography [2]  Widespread Coastal
Wintering Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries
Clutch Size [3]  3
Clutches / Year [1]  2
Fledging [1]  29 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  31,000
Incubation [3]  28 days
Maximum Longevity [1]  19 years
Wing Span [3]  17 inches (.43 m)
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 2 months
Male Maturity [1]  11 months 1 day

Prey / Diet

Predators

Corvus ossifragus (Fish Crow)[4]
Falco peregrinus (Peregrine Falcon)[4]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0