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Black-bellied Plover

Pluvialis squatarola
BBPL · Charadriidae · Plovers and Lapwings
Grassland provisional · from avonet
2heard

The grey plover or black-bellied plover (Pluvialis squatarola) is a medium-sized plover breeding in Arctic regions. It is a long-distance migrant, with a nearly worldwide coastal distribution when not breeding.

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mean confidence
24–26 in wingspan

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

Black-bellied Plover
Hans HillewaertCC BY-SA 3.0
2Detections
2Days heard
0.65Mean confidence
23 SepFirst heard
26 SepLast heard
6,159Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

23 Sep 26 Sep

Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.

Where heard

At home2 detections
On outings0 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-09-26 11:30
9 s
0.77
2026-09-23 14:30
9 s
0.53
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 27 Sep, 9:30am Archive