Plovers & Lapwings in Ireland
Our list for Ireland has 8 plovers & lapwings recorded regularly there: 2 residents, 1 summer visitor, 2 winter visitors, 1 passage migrant and 2 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Ireland in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 8, most common first
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaResidentCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusResidentCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
Golden PloverPluvialis apricariaWinter visitorCommon26–29 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaWinter visitorUncommon27–30 cmRegularly Jul–May
American Golden-PloverPluvialis dominicaPassage migrantRare24–28 cmRegularly Sep–Nov
Little Ringed PloverThinornis dubiusSummer visitorRare14–17 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Pacific Golden-PloverPluvialis fulvaScarceRare23–26 cmRegularly Jul
DotterelEudromias morinellusScarceRare20–22 cmRegularly Oct
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