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Grey Plover

Pluvialis squatarola (Linnaeus, C 1758)

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Partial list of sound recordings available from xeno-canto & macaulaylibrary.org.
Species name Recordist Date Location Remarks Cat.nr.
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola David Darrell-Lambert 2025-04-03 Rainham Marshes, London, Havering (United Kingdom) (30 m) flight call - [sono] 985355
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Paul Marvin 2012-11-25 Fiesta Island, San Diego, California, San Diego (United States) (0 m) flight call -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 150225
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola David Darrell-Lambert 2016-04-20 Rainham Marshes, London, Havering (United Kingdom) (30 m) call - [sono] 1019833
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola David Darrell-Lambert 2016-08-30 Treasure Island, Pinellas County, Florida, Pinellas (United States) (0 m) call - [sono] 1019830
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Julien Piette 2021-09-14 Dunkerque, Nord, Hauts-de-France, Nord (France) (10 m) nocturnal flight call - [sono] 674572
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Stanislas Wroza 2019-10-22 Lège-Cap-Ferret, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Gironde (France) (10 m) alarm call, flight call -

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 526288
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Paul Kelly 2023-08-23 Tacumshin Lake (East End), County Wexford, Wexford (Ireland) (0 m) call, flight call - [sono] 826368
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Krzysztof Deoniziak 2020-10-14 Akcja Siemianowka Bird Ringing Station (near Siemianowka), Podlaskie Voivodeship, Podlaskie (Poland) (150 m) call, flight call -

Recorded with Wildlife Acoustics SM4. Recorder placed in shrubs between forest and wetland.

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 596567
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Irish Wildlife Sounds 2021-10-11 Ballyvoge, Cork, County Cork, Cork (Ireland) (50 m) flight call -

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 692947
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Albert Lastukhin 2013-01-16 Toliara, Toliary-I, Atsimo-Andrefana, Atsimo-Andrefana (Madagascar) (0 m) call, flight call - [sono] 968518
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Irish Wildlife Sounds 2022-12-10 Barleycove, County Cork, Cork (Ireland) (0 m) nocturnal flight call - [sono] 774420
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Bo Shunqi 薄顺奇 2025-08-23 临洪河口, Lianyungang, Jiangsu, Lianyungang (China) (-10 m) call - [sono] 1099191
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Martijn Verdoes 2020-10-12 Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Gelderland (Netherlands) (30 m) nocturnal flight call - [sono] 594802
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Paul Marvin 2012-05-21 Petit Manan Point, Washington Co, Maine, Washington (United States) (10 m) call -

there were a few birds present on mudflats, not seen calling

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 165316
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Paweł Szymański 2013-09-25 Zb. Wonieść, Gmina Śmigiel, Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Wielkopolskie (Poland) (70 m) flight call -

Light hiss reduction was used.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 155473
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Alan Dalton 2021-08-16 Landsort, Nynäshamn Municipality, Stockholms län, Nynäshamn (Sweden) (10 m) life stage uncertain, nocturnal flight call, sex uncertain -

Recorded with SM4

 672933
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Alan Dalton 2022-09-03 Landsort, Nynäshamn Municipality, Stockholms län, Nynäshamn (Sweden) (10 m) nocturnal flight call -

Small flock passing at night on migration.

 756194
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola David Darrell-Lambert 2020-04-08 Thames View Hill, Chafford Hundred, Thurrock (United Kingdom) (30 m) nocturnal flight call - [sono] 1019811
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Simon Elliott 2017-10-08 Snettisham RSPB Reserve, Norfolk, England, Norfolk (United Kingdom) (0 m) call -

calls from birds on ground

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

 592897
xeno-canto.org
Black-bellied Plover - Pluvialis squatarola James Wheat 2025-12-27 , Duval (United States)   -   647810184
macaulaylibrary.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola squatarola Jarek Matusiak 2021-08-05 Gmina Baranów (near Baranów), powiat grodziski, Mazowieckie, Grodzisk Mazowiecki (Poland) (90 m) flight call, juvenile - [sono] 666531
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Irish Wildlife Sounds 2022-03-04 Ballyvoge, Cork, County Cork, Cork (Ireland) (50 m) nocturnal flight call, sandwich tern-like call -

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

 717830
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Ricardo Hevia 2023-11-19 Ortegal (near Cariño), A Coruña, Galicia, Cariño (Spain) (20 m) nocturnal flight call - [sono] 842815
xeno-canto.org
Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola Paul Kelly 2023-03-17 Coddstown, Wexford, County Wexford, Wexford (Ireland) (0 m) flight call, nocturnal flight call -

Just one sharp call.

 787643
xeno-canto.org
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