Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Charadrius semipalmatus
Chorlitejo, Semipalmated Plover
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Charadriidae
Genus
Charadrius
Species
semipalmatus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Aegialitis semipalmata Sclater & Salvin, 1873
Origin: Migrant
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Common migrant, always present in small numbers, but most numerous August - April (Harris 1973), and among the most common shorebirds year-round in the archipelago. Two skin specimens in MECCD.
- Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.
- Harris, M.P. (1973) The Galápagos avifauna. Condor 75(3): 265-278.
- Salvin, O. (1876) On the avifauna of the Galápagos Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 9: 447-510.
- Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Charadrius semipalmatus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5061. Accessed 11 June 2026.