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Illustration of a Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia) egg, 35.7 × 26.2 mm
Illustration © 2026 Lincoln Savi, Savi Made. Free to use with credit.

Charadrius wilsonia

  • 35.7 × 26.2 mm
Breeds in United States, Mexico, Central America (7 countries), the Caribbean and South America (8 countries)
show all 22Canada & United States: United States
Mexico: Mexico
Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
The Caribbean: Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean islands
South America: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Cream to buff, speckled heavily with black, dark brown, or gray.

Sources of information

Size
Average of 66 eggs: Bent, Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 2 (U.S. National Museum Bulletin 146, 1929), p. 259.
Description
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds: Wilson's Plover, Life History.
Drawing checked against a photo: Flickr photo by dpwagtail.
Shape
Drawn from the length and width, with the taper estimated from the typical eggs of its group (how these eggs are drawn).

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