Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Charadriiformes > Charadriidae > Charadrius > Charadrius montanusCharadrius montanus (Mountain Plover)Synonyms: Eupoda montana Language: Spanish The mountain plover (Charadrius montanus) is a medium-sized ground bird in the plover family (Charadriidae). It is misnamed, as it lives on level land. Unlike most plovers, it is usually not found near bodies of water or even on wet soil; it prefers dry habitat with short grass (usually due to grazing) and bare ground. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 14.4912 EDGE Score: 3.43342 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 108 grams | | Birth Weight [3] | 16.5 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 114 grams | | Male Weight [1] | 102 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 11.8 % |  | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Shortgrass prairie, Agricultural | | Wintering Geography [2] | Chihuahuan Grasslands | | Wintering Habitat [2] | Chihuahuan grasslands, Agricultural | | | Diet [4] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [4] | 100 % | | Forages - Ground [4] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [7] | 3 | | Clutches / Year [1] | 2 | | Fledging [1] | 34 days | | Global Population (2017 est.) [2] | 20,000 | | Incubation [6] | 29 days | | Mating Display [3] | Ground display | | Mating System [3] | Monogamy | | Maximum Longevity [5] | 10 years | | Migration [8] | Intracontinental | | Wing Span [9] | 23 inches (.58 m) | | | Female Maturity [5] | 1 year | | Male Maturity [5] | 1 year |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Arizona Mountains forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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California Central Valley grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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California coastal sage and chaparral |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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California interior chaparral and woodlands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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California montane chaparral and woodlands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Chihuahuan desert |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Meseta Central matorral |
Mexico |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Mojave desert |
United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Northern short grasslands |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Sonoran desert |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Tamaulipan mezquital |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Western short grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Wyoming Basin shrub steppe |
United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area |
V |
36286 |
Montana, Wyoming, United States |
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California Coast Ranges Biosphere Reserve |
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153447 |
California, United States |
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Capulin Volcano National Monument |
V |
796 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Carrizo Plain Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve |
Ia |
7550 |
California, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Central Plains Biosphere Reserve |
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15345 |
United States |
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Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary |
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California, United States |
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Channel Islands National Park |
II |
139010 |
California, United States |
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Crater Lake National Park |
II |
180091 |
Oregon, United States |
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Creighton Ranch Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve |
Ia |
3275 |
California, United States |
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Cumberland Island National Seashore |
II |
20629 |
Georgia, United States |
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Death Valley National Park |
II |
762125 |
California, Nevada, United States |
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El Malpais National Monument |
III |
109980 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary |
IV |
2387149 |
Florida, United States |
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area |
V |
670229 |
Arizona, Nevada, United States |
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Lava Beds National Monument |
III |
20002 |
California, United States |
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Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve |
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5901 |
California, United States |
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Paine Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve |
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2965 |
California, United States |
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Petrified Forest National Park |
II |
44522 |
Arizona, United States |
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Point Reyes National Seashore |
II |
27068 |
California, United States |
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Redwood National Park |
II |
77867 |
California, United States |
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Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
23844 |
Oklahoma, United States |
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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area |
V |
38440 |
California, United States |
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Sevilleta LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
IV |
228335 |
New Mexico, United States |
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Shortgrass Steppe LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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Colorado, United States |
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Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument |
V |
3049 |
Arizona, United States |
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Wupatki National Monument |
III |
36098 |
Arizona, United States |
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Habitat Vegetation Classification |
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Location |
Website |
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Chihuahuan Desert Foothill-Piedmont & Lower Montane Grassland |
United States (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico); Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora) |
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Intermountain Semi-Desert Grassland |
United States (Utah, New Mexico, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, California, Montana, Oregon, Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona) |
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Intermountain Semi-Desert Steppe & Shrubland |
United States (Washington, California, Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado) |
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 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. ♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 7Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 8Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 9Wildlife As Canon Sees It♦ 10SPECIES ASSESSMENT FOR MOUNTAIN PLOVER (CHARADRIUS MONTANUS) IN WYOMING, HAMILTON SMITH AND DOUGLAS A. KEINATH, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, November 2004 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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