Plovers & Lapwings in Spain
Our list for Spain has 9 plovers & lapwings recorded regularly there: 2 residents, 1 summer visitor, 4 winter visitors and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Spain 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 cmRecorded all year
Little Ringed PloverThinornis dubiusSummer visitorCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Kentish PloverCharadrius alexandrinusResidentUncommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaResidentUncommon27–30 cmRecorded all year
Golden PloverPluvialis apricariaWinter visitorUncommon26–29 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
DotterelEudromias morinellusWinter visitorRare20–22 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Pacific Golden-PloverPluvialis fulvaPassage migrantRare23–26 cmRegularly Jul–Feb
American Golden-PloverPluvialis dominicaPassage migrantRare24–28 cmRegularly Apr–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