
Pluvialis squatarola
West Coast National Park is the atlas place where the Grey Plover is recorded, and its records concentrate in the United States, Canada, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and Portugal. This atlas holds about 1.1 million open records of the bird from 20 countries. Because the map shows where records concentrate, it represents a partial view of the total range.
Recorded months differ by region, and each place page shows the timing of the records captured there.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Grey Plover as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.