#1070 · 🐦 birds

Semipalmated Plover

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Bontbekplevier ·Charadrius semipalmatus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The semipalmated plover ( Charadrius semipalmatus ) is a small plover. The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys ( kharadra , "ravine"). The specific semipalmatus is Latin and comes from semi , "half" and palma , "palm". Like the English name, this refers to its only partly webbed feet.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 44,423iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
44,423 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1825 (201 years ago).