Plovers & Lapwings in Turks & Caicos Islands
Our list for Turks & Caicos Islands has 4 plovers & lapwings recorded regularly there: 2 winter visitors and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Turks & Caicos Islands in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 4, most common first
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaWinter visitorCommon27–30 cmRecorded all year
Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatusWinter visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Piping PloverCharadrius melodusPassage migrantCommon17–18 cmRegularly Jan–Feb
American Golden-PloverPluvialis dominicaPassage migrantUncommon24–28 cmRegularly Oct–Nov
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Piping Plover 17–18 cm
- Semipalmated Plover 17–19 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