Common Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticula
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- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Chordates)
- ClassAves (Birds)
- OrderCharadriiformes (Shorebirds and Allies)
- FamilyCharadriidae (Plovers and Lapwings)
- GenusCharadrius (Holarctic Ringed Plovers and Allies)
- SpeciesCharadrius hiaticula (Common Ringed Plover)
About the Common Ringed Plover
The common ringed plover, great ringed plover or ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula) is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae. It breeds across much of northern Eurasia, as well as Greenland. The common ringed plover was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the current binomial name Charadrius hiaticula. Linnaeus specified the type locality as "Europa & America" but this is now restricted to Sweden. The specific epithet hiaticula is late Medieval Latin for a plover.
Three subspecies are recognised: C. h. psammodromus Salomonsen, 1930 – Arctic of North Atlantic: Ellesmere Island and Baffin Island (northeast Canada, sporadic); Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands and Svalbard (north of Norway)
C. h. hiaticula Linnaeus, 1758 – temperate east North Atlantic region: British Isles and northwest France to south Scandinavia and Baltic States C. h. tundrae (Lowe, 1915) – Arctic Ocean coasts, islands: north Scandinavia to Chukchi Peninsula (northeast Siberia) including Novaya Zemlya and New Siberian Islands (north of northwest, northeast Russia) and St. Lawrence Island (north Bering Sea; erratic... Wikipedia →
Recent sightings of Common Ringed Plover in Kiskunság National Park
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Vanellus vanellus
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Pluvialis squatarola
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Pluvialis apricaria
Sociable Lapwing
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Ruff
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Black-winged Stilt
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Common Redshank
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Global Distribution
Warmer areas are where this animal is recorded most often.
Parks Where Found
Quick answers
What are the chances of seeing a Common Ringed Plover in Kiskunság National Park?
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Ringed Plover sighting in Kiskunság National Park, based on 109 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data.
When is the best time to see Common Ringed Plover in Kiskunság National Park?
October has the highest sighting rate for Common Ringed Plover in Kiskunság National Park in our monthly data.