Plovers & Lapwings in Portugal
Our list for Portugal has 9 plovers & lapwings recorded regularly there: 1 resident, 1 summer visitor, 5 winter visitors and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Portugal in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 9, most common first
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaWinter visitorCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusWinter visitorCommon28–31 cmRegularly Jul–Mar
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaWinter visitorUncommon27–30 cmRecorded all year
Kentish PloverCharadrius alexandrinusResidentUncommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Little Ringed PloverThinornis dubiusSummer visitorUncommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Golden PloverPluvialis apricariaWinter visitorUncommon26–29 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatusWinter visitorUncommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
DotterelEudromias morinellusPassage migrantRare20–22 cmRegularly Sep–Oct
American Golden-PloverPluvialis dominicaPassage migrantRare24–28 cmRegularly May–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