Magellanic Plover

Pluvianellus socialis Gray, GR, 1846

Magellanic Plover, Pluvianellus socialis, lives in southern South America, breeding inland in Santa Cruz Province in south-west Argentina, Magallanes Province in far south-east Chile, and the north and central parts of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. Outside the breeding season it moves to coastal eastern and south-eastern Argentina as far north as south-east Buenos Aires Province. It is the only wader known to feed its chicks by bringing up food from the crop. Gray described it in 1846, and it is placed in the family Pluvianellidae.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Pluvianellidae — Magellanic Plover

Breeding range

South America: inland w Santa Cruz Province (sw Argentina), se Magallanes Province (far se Chile) and n, c Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego

Nonbreeding range

coastal ec, se Argentina to se Buenos Aires Province