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Pacific Golden-Plover
Pluvialis fulva
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About the Pacific Golden-Plover
The Pacific golden plover (Pluvialis fulva) is a migratory shorebird that breeds during summer in Alaska and Siberia. During nonbreeding season, this medium-sized plover migrates widely across the Pacific.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Pluvialis fulva
- Family
- Plovers and Lapwings
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Similar species
Other members of the plovers and lapwings family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
- Collared Plover Anarhynchus collaris
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Eurasian Dotterel Eudromias morinellus
- European Golden-Plover Pluvialis apricaria
- Greater Sand-Plover Anarhynchus leschenaultii
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Mountain Plover Anarhynchus montanus
- Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
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