Egyptian plover: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Egyptian plover lives – recorded in 23 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Pluvianus aegyptius
Group	Waders, gulls, terns & auks
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	23 countries
Continents	Africa
Mass	9.2 g (birth weight); 82 g (adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Charadriiformes
Family	Pluvianidae

Where does the Egyptian plover live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Egyptian plover in 23 countries and territories across Africa. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa, Burkina Faso.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is an Egyptian plover?

Wikidata records the following for the Egyptian plover: mass 9.2 g (birth weight); 82 g (adult weight).

Is the Egyptian plover endangered?

The Egyptian plover’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the Egyptian plover?

The Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius) is a bird in the order Charadriiformes and the family Pluvianidae, genus Pluvianus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Egyptian plover

The Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius), also known as the crocodile bird, is a wader, the only member of the genus Pluvianus. It occurs in a band across Sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east and south to parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Despite the name, it no longer occurs in Egypt. The species was formerly placed with the pratincoles and coursers in the family, Glareolidae, but is now regarded as the sole member of its own monotypic family Pluvianidae.

The species is one of several plovers doubtfully associated with the "trochilus" bird mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus in a supposed cleaning symbiosis with the Nile crocodile.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Egyptian plover (revision 1380597808), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q835119 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).