Snowy Plover
Anarhynchus nivosus (Cassin, 1858)
Charadriidae — Plovers
Snowy Plover, Anarhynchus nivosus, is a plover of the Americas, breeding from coastal Washington and inland parts of western Canada and the United States through Mexico, the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands, and south to Peru and south-central Chile. In the nonbreeding season it reaches coastal northern Central America. It is a small shorebird in the family Charadriidae. It is recognised by its pale upperparts and white underparts, a white band on the back of the neck, and a slender black bill with grey to black legs.
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Charadriidae — Plovers
- Breeding range
- North America, Middle America, South America: coastal Washington to c Baja California (nw Mexico); inland Saskatchewan (irregular; sc Canada) to California and c Texas; coastal Gulf of Mexico to Yucatan Pen.; inland c Mexico; s, c Bahamas to Virgin Is.; Peru to sc Chile
- Nonbreeding range
- to coastal n Central America
