From April to July 2008, we surveyed for breeding plovers at 32 sites in the semiarid highlands of Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí, in the Central Mexican High Plateau. We documented evidence or presumption of breeding Snowy Plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus) at 3 sites, Killdeer (C. vociferus) at 15 sites, and Mountain Plovers (C. montanus) at 1 site Our surveys showed that the region is important breeding ground for only the Killdeer. We documented an apparent breeding range extension of the Mountain Plover to slightly more than 200 km south of its previously known breeding range.
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1 April 2010
Plovers Breeding in the Highlands of Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí, Central México
Jaime Luévano,
Eric Mellink,
Mónica Riojas-López
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Western North American Naturalist
Vol. 70 • No. 1
April 2010
Vol. 70 • No. 1
April 2010
distribution
Killdeer
mountain plover
Shorebirds
Snowy Plover
status