Wilson's Plover

Taxonomy

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Charadriidae

Genus

Anarhynchus

eBird Code

wilplo

Subspecies (4)

• Anarhynchus wilsonia beldingi

  Pacific and Gulf of California coasts of Baja California southward to southern coastal Peru

• Anarhynchus wilsonia cinnamominus

  coastal northern South America from northeastern Colombia, Venezuela and islands to north, Trinidad, Grenadines and Grenada (southern Lesser Antilles), Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire, eastward to French Guiana

• Anarhynchus wilsonia crassirostris

  coastal northeastern to east-central Brazil (Amapá to Bahia)

• Anarhynchus wilsonia wilsonia

  breeds coastal Virginia to Florida (southeastern USA) and Gulf of Mexico to Caribbean coast of Central America and Bahamas, Greater Antilles (except Jamaica), and northern Lesser Antilles; winters to eastern Brazil