Charadrius nivosus

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Overview

Common Names

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Charadrius

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 70 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. alexandrinus (Kentish Plover) · C. alexandrinus alexandrinus (Kentish Plover (Kentish)) · C. alexandrinus dealbatus (Kentish Plover (White-Faced)) · C. alexandrinus nivosus (Snowy Plover) · C. alexandrinus seebohmi (Kentish Plover (Indian)) · C. alexandrinus tenuirostris (Snowy Plover) · C. alticola (Puna Plover) · C. asiaticus (Caspian Plover) · C. australis (Inland Dotterel) · C. bicinctus (Double-Banded Plover) · C. bicinctus bicinctus (Double-Banded Plover) · C. bicinctus exilis (Double-Banded Plover) · C. cinctus (Red-Kneed Dotterel) · C. collaris (Collared Plover) · C. dubius (Little Ringed Plover) · C. dubius charadrius (Little Ringed Plover) · C. dubius curonicus (Little Ringed Plover (Northern)) · C. dubius dubius (Little Ringed Plover (Southern)) · C. dubius papuanus (Little Ringed Plover) · C. falklandicus (Two-Banded Plover) · C. forbesi (Forbes's Plover) · C. hiaticula (Common Ringed Plover) · C. hiaticula harrisoni (Common Ringed Plover) · C. hiaticula hiaticula (Common Ringed Plover) · C. hiaticula tundrae (Common Ringed Plover) · C. javanicus (Javan Plover) · C. leschenaultii (Greater Sand-Plover) · C. leschenaultii leschenaultii (Greater Sand Plover) · C. marginatus (White-Fronted Plover) · C. marginatus marginatus (White-Fronted Sand Plover) · C. melanops (Black-Fronted Plover) · C. melodus (Piping Plover) · C. melodus circumcinctus (Piping Plover) · C. melodus melodus (Piping Plover) · C. modestus (Rufous-Chested Dotterel) · C. mongolus (Lesser Sand-Plover (Tibetan)) · C. mongolus mongolus (Lesser Sand-Plover (Mongolian)) · C. mongolus pamirensis (Lesser Sand Plover) · C. mongolus stegmanni (Eastern Lesser Sand-Plover) · C. montanus (Mountain Plover) · C. morinellus (Eurasian Dotterel) · C. nivosus (Snowy Plover) · C. nivosus nivosus (Snowy Plover (Snowy)) · C. novaeseelandiae (Long-Billed Plover) · C. obscurus (Red-Breasted Plover) · C. obscurus aquilonius (Red-Breasted Plover) · C. obscurus obscurus (Red-Breasted Plover) · C. occidentalis (Snowy Plover) · C. pallidus (Chestnut-Banded Plover) · C. pallidus pallidus (Chestnut-Banded Plover) · C. pecuarius (Kittlitz's Plover) · C. pecuarius pecuarius (Kittlitz's Sand Plover) · C. peronii (Malaysian Plover) · C. placidus (Long-Billed Plover) · C. rubricollis (Hooded Plover) · C. ruficapillus (Red-Capped Plover) · C. sanctaehelenae (St. Helena Plover) · C. semipalmatus (Semipalmated Plover) · C. thoracicus (Madagascan Plover) · C. tricollaris (Three-Banded Plover) · C. tricollaris tricollaris (Three-Banded Plover) · C. venustus (Chestnut-Banded Sand Plover) · C. veredus (Oriental Dotterel) · C. vociferous (Eastern Mew Gull) · C. vociferus (Killdeer) · C. vociferus peruvianus (Killdeer) · C. vociferus vociferus (Killdeer) · C. wilsonia (Wilson's Plover) · C. wilsonia beldingi (Wilson's Plover) · C. wilsonia wilsonia (Wilson's Plover)

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Further Reading

• Birds of eastern Canada / Ottawa: F.A. Acland, 1922. url .
• Birds of eastern Canada / by P. A. Taverner. Ottawa: F. A. Acland, 1922. url p. 109, p. 109.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 116, p. 136, p. 137, p. 139, p. 146, p. 246, p. 252, p. 411, p. 480, p. 846.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. Charles E. Hellmayr, Boardman Conover. 13 1948 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1948. url p. 58, p. 60.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. url p. 104, p. 520.
• Field book of birds of the southwestern United States, by sqther E. Wyman. .. and Elizabeth F. Burnell. .. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. url p. 298, p. 78.
• Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. url p. 751, p. 751.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 276, p. 294, p. 294, p. 572, p. 767.
• Supplement to the code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds. adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union; prepared by a Committee of the Union. New York: The Union, 1889-1920. url p. 444.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 444.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 3 1942 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 69.
• The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url , , , , , .
• The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies / London; H. Sotheran & Co., [1888] url p. 141, p. 157, p. 166, p. 171, p. 172, p. 173.
• [Collected reprints, 1902-1928. s.l., s.n.19--] url .

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 269383
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2494459
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2169132

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