Plovers & Lapwings in Canada
Our list for Canada has 8 plovers & lapwings recorded regularly there: 5 summer visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Canada in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 8, most common first
Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatusSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly May–Oct
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaSummer visitorUncommon27–30 cmRecorded all year
American Golden-PloverPluvialis dominicaSummer visitorUncommon24–28 cmRegularly May–Nov
Piping PloverCharadrius melodusSummer visitorRare17–18 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Pacific Golden-PloverPluvialis fulvaSummer visitorRare23–26 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaPassage migrantRare17–19 cmRegularly Jun–Sep
Golden PloverPluvialis apricariaPassage migrantRare26–29 cmRegularly Apr–May
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusPassage migrantRare28–31 cmRegularly Nov
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made