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'''Juvenile''': resembles winter adult but has an almost white forehead and supercilium. The flanks are chevroned with dusky-yellow but belly and vent are whitish. | '''Juvenile''': resembles winter adult but has an almost white forehead and supercilium. The flanks are chevroned with dusky-yellow but belly and vent are whitish. | ||
| − | [[Image:4104P0051.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Juvenile <br />Photo by {{user|James+Wang|James Wang}}<br />Shanghai, [[China]], August 2003]] | + | [[Image:4104P0051.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Juvenile <br />Photo by {{user|James+Wang|James Wang}} <br />Shanghai, [[China]], August 2003]] |
====Similar Species==== | ====Similar Species==== | ||
[[Eurasian Golden-Plover]]: <br /> | [[Eurasian Golden-Plover]]: <br /> | ||
Revision as of 21:16, 11 July 2009
- Pluvialis fulva
Identification
21-25cm Breeding Adult
- Upperparts, crown and hind neck are blackish strongly spotted with gold
- A white band across forehead, supercilium and sides of neck
- Black underparts
- Dark grey legs
- Black bill
Non-breeding
- Loses black underparts
- Less gold upperparts
Juvenile: resembles winter adult but has an almost white forehead and supercilium. The flanks are chevroned with dusky-yellow but belly and vent are whitish.
Similar Species
Eurasian Golden-Plover:
American Golden-Plover: Pacific Golden-Plover is bit lighter and "golder" overall. Has same white at forehead but not quite as thick, white runs down along sides, thickens at wing bend but continues along the flanks, does not abruptly stop as in the American Golden-Plover.
Distribution
Breeds in the tundra of (Siberia and western Alaska). Winters in south Asia and Australasia.
A regular vagrant to Europe, north-eastern Africa and California.
Taxonomy
Monotypic[1]
This taxon is considered a subspecies of American Golden Plover (sensu lato) by some authors[2]
Non-breeding Adult
Photo by Karim Madoya
Tg. aru KBU, Malaysia, October 2005
Habitat
Breeds on arctic and sub-arctic tundra and in stony, gently sloping uplands.
Winters at water edges, marshlands, swamps, coastal mudflats, rice-fields, and on short-grass expanses
Behaviour
They form large flocks on their winter feeding grounds
Diet
Diet includes molluscs, worms, crustaceans, spiders. During breeding, berries, seeds and leaves are added.
They use the typical 'plover' feeding action of 'run and stop'
Breeding
They make their nest as a shallow scrape lined with lichens. Four eggs are laid, incubated by both parents (26 days). After hatching, the chicks and parents move off to moist shrubby or grassy tundra. When threatened, the parent distracts the predator from the nest or chicks by pretending to have a broken wing. Both parents raise the young, but if the brood is late, only by the male.
Vocalisation
Call: A loud tu-it or keruit or kyew-eek.
References
- Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
- Avibase
- Handbook of the Birds of the Western Palearctic
- naturia
- BF Member Observations
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Pacific Golden Plover. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Pacific_Golden_Plover
