Plovers & Lapwings in England
Our list for England has 9 plovers & lapwings recorded regularly there: 1 resident, 2 summer visitors, 3 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in England in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 9, most common first
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusResidentCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Little Ringed PloverThinornis dubiusSummer visitorUncommon14–17 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Golden PloverPluvialis apricariaWinter visitorUncommon26–29 cmRecorded all year
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaWinter visitorUncommon27–30 cmRecorded all year
Pacific Golden-PloverPluvialis fulvaPassage migrantRare23–26 cmRegularly Jul
DotterelEudromias morinellusPassage migrantRare20–22 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
American Golden-PloverPluvialis dominicaPassage migrantRare24–28 cmRegularly May–Nov
Kentish PloverCharadrius alexandrinusWinter visitorRare15–17 cmRegularly Aug–May
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