Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands (B), USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (B) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (B) (NB).
Vagrant to Chile.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia) [XC269409]
by Paul Marvin from south Jekyll Island, Glynn County, Georgia, United States (call, flight call)
Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia) [XC543043]
by Isain Contreras Rodr\u00edguez from Topolobampo, Ahome, Sinaloa, Mexico (call)
Subspecies
Birds breeding on Bahamas and Greater Antilles sometimes separated as subspecies rufinucha.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
wilsonia Ord, 1814 - Eastern USA to eastern Mexico and Belize, Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and northern Lesser Antilles. Winters south to eastern Brazil.
beldingi (Ridgway, 1919) - Pacific coast from Baja California to Panama and Ecuador, ranging south to central Peru.
cinnamominus (Ridgway, 1919) - Colombia to French Guiana. Also Netherlands Antilles, islands off Venezuela, Trinidad, Grenada and Mustique.
crassirostris von Spix, 1825 - Transcaspia to south-eastern Kazakhstan. Winters in eastern & south-eastern Africa. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Greater Sand Plover (Charadrius leschenaultii).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet