bird · Charadriiformes · Charadriidae

Grey Plover

Pluvialis squatarola (Linnaeus, 1758) — also called Black-bellied Plover, Black Bellied Plover, Black-bellied Plover / Gray Plover. Occurrence records of the Grey Plover are shared on GBIF from around 16 parks and reserves in the directory, most of all Langebaan Lagoon Marine Protected Area (1 321 records), in 3 provinces.

IUCN: VulnerableCharadriidae

16reserves with records

3 883records around them

3provinces

VUIUCN category

Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) — Photo: Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is recorded

Reserve	Province	Records
Langebaan Lagoon Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	1 321
West Coast National ParkNational park	WC Western Cape	1 229
De Mond Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	426
Pauline Bohnen Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	225
Steenbok Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	172
Cape Recife Nature ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	150
Featherbed Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	101
Stilbaai Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	68
Kabeljous Nature ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	54
Sixteen Mile Beach Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	40
Morris point / Uitkyk puntNature reserve	WC Western Cape	33
Fort D' Acre ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	32
Walker Bay Whale SanctuaryMarine protected area	WC Western Cape	17
Kowie Local Authority Nature ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	9
Namaqua National Park Marine Protected AreaMarine protected area	NC Northern Cape	4
Cape Columbine Nature ReserveNature reserve	WC Western Cape	2

By province

Western Cape: 11 reserves
Eastern Cape: 4 reserves
Northern Cape: 1 reserve

Taxonomy

Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Charadriidae
Scientific name: Pluvialis squatarola
GBIF taxon: 2480327
Wikidata: Q18835

More of the Charadriidae family

Blacksmith Lapwing Crowned Lapwing African Wattled Lapwing Three-banded Plover White-fronted Plover Kittlitz's Plover Common Ringed Plover Black-winged Lapwing Senegal Lapwing White-crowned Lapwing

Source: GBIF.org occurrence records within the radius of each reserve's point; taxonomy and IUCN category from the GBIF backbone; photo from Wikimedia Commons, credit on the picture. Records near a reserve do not prove the species lives inside it.