Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pluvialis dominica
Playero dorado, American Golden Plover
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Charadriidae
Genus
Pluvialis
Species
dominica
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Pluvialis dominica dominica (Statius Muller, 1776) ) (Integrated Taxonomic Information System, 2022)
Origin: Native
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- Swash, A. Still, R. (2000) Birds, mammals, and reptiles of the Galapagos Islands, an identification guide. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 168 pp.
- Harris, M.P. (1982) A field guide to the birds of Galápagos. Collins, London, 2nd ed., 160 pp.
- Hatch, J.J. Hailman, J.P. (1967) Golden plovers in Galapagos. Condor 69: 320.
- Hayman, P. Marchant, J., & Prater, T. (1986) Shorebirds: an identification guide to the waders of the world. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 412 pp.
- 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.
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (2021) Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Www.itis.gov
- GBIF Secretariat (2021) GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/5284517
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pluvialis dominica", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5155. Accessed 9 September 2025.