Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pluvialis fulva
Chorlito dorado siberiano, Pacific Golden-Plover
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Charadriidae
Genus
Pluvialis
Species
fulva
Taxon category: Accepted
The taxonomy of this and the P. dominica is confusing, the identity of the birds recorded is difficult to discern and verify.
Origin: Migrant
- 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.
- Freire, J.F. Ahlman, R., Brinkuizen, D.M., Greenfield, P.J., Solano-Ugalde, A., Navarrete, L., Ridgely, R.S. (2013) Rare birds in Ecuador: first annual report of the Committee of Ecuadorian Records in Ornithology (CERO) Avances 5(2):B24-B41.
- 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.
- Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Pluvialis fulva", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5156. Accessed 11 June 2026.