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| Subspecies: | Unknown |
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| Est. World Population: | 500000-1000000 |
| CITES Status: | NOT LISTED |
| IUCN Status: | Least Concern |
| U.S. ESA Status: | NOT LISTED |
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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
Breeds in well-drained gravel or shale areas in subarctic and low-arctic regions, sand dunes, rocky beaches, and inland heath-lichen tundra. On migration, used mudflats, salt marshes with mussel beds, beaches, agricultural fields, tidal mudflats, flooded fields, sewage lagoons, and sandy flats. In the wintering range favours coastal areas, sandy and muddy beaches, mudflats, estuaries, lakes, marshes, tidal pools, agricultural fields, sewage ponds, and managed wetlands (Nol and Blanken 2020).
Range:
Breeds in the Arctic and sub-Arctic of Canada and northern USA. Birds migrate southwards on a broad front to winter on coastlines throughout North, Central and South America (Colwell and Haig 2019).
Conservation:
Conservation Actions Underway
Protected in U.S. and Canada under the 1927 Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Listed in Appendix II of CMS.
Conservation Actions Proposed
This plover undertakes long-distance migrations along established routes annually, necessitating the protection of staging areas crucial for rest and feeding. Management goals aim to safeguard these essential sites from human disturbances to ensure uninterrupted access to food and rest. Monitoring should continue.
Protected in U.S. and Canada under the 1927 Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Listed in Appendix II of CMS.
Conservation Actions Proposed
This plover undertakes long-distance migrations along established routes annually, necessitating the protection of staging areas crucial for rest and feeding. Management goals aim to safeguard these essential sites from human disturbances to ensure uninterrupted access to food and rest. Monitoring should continue.