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).
Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia) [XC571876]
by Manuel Grosselet from Paredones, Ahome, Sinaloa, Mexico (alarm call)
Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia) [XC269319]
by Paul Marvin from south Jekyll Island, Glynn County, Georgia, United States (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 Sandplover (Charadrius leschenaultii).