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title: "American Golden-Plover"
description: "Pluvialis dominica — Uccelli. The American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica) is a medium-sized plover."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/american-golden-plover
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# American Golden-Plover

> Pluvialis dominica — Uccelli. The American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica) is a medium-sized plover.

- Scientific name: *Pluvialis dominica*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi)
- iNaturalist observations: 7485
- Wikidata: [Q216836](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216836)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4893](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4893)

## Names

- en: American Golden-Plover
- de: Wanderregenpfeifer
- es: Chorlo Dorado Americano
- fr: Pluvier bronzé
- nl: Amerikaanse goudplevier
- pt: Batuiruçu
- pl: Siewka szara

## Countries with the most observations

US (3918), CA (1255), AR (442), BR (311), MX (185), UY (183), PE (68), CL (61), GB (49), PT (36), ES (26), ZA (26)

## Summary

The American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica) is a medium-sized plover. The genus name is Latin and means relating to rain, from pluvia, "rain".  It was believed that golden plovers flocked when rain was imminent.  The species name dominica refers to Santo Domingo, now Hispaniola, in the West Indies.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_golden_plover

## Photo

![American Golden-Plover](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/american-golden-plover/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143736775

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/american-golden-plover?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).