Killdeer

Taxonomy

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Charadriidae

Genus

Charadrius

eBird Code

killde

Subspecies (3)

• Charadrius vociferus peruvianus

  coastal Ecuador to far northwestern Chile

• Charadrius vociferus ternominatus

  Bahamas, Greater Antilles and Virgin Islands

• Charadrius vociferus vociferus

  breeds inland southern Alaska, subarctic to temperate Canada eastward to Gulf of St. Lawrence, throughout contiguous USA and locally to southwestern Panama; winters to northwestern South America