Plovers & Lapwings in South Africa
Our list for South Africa has 4 plovers & lapwings recorded regularly there: 2 summer visitors, 1 passage migrant and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in South Africa in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 4, most common first
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Ringed Plover 17–19 cm
- Pacific Golden-Plover 23–26 cm
- American Golden-Plover 24–28 cm
- Grey Plover 27–30 cm
Body length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
Data: 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