Breeding male © Ian Davies eBird S23958076 Macaulay Library ML 42945491
Breeding female © James Kennerley
Nonbreeding adult/immature © Çağan Abbasoğlu
Nonbreeding adult/immature © Ana Amaral
Nonbreeding adult/immature © Lukasz Haluch
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Nonbreeding adult/immature © Itamar Donitza
Nonbreeding adult/immature © David Fernández
Breeding adult © Joshua Hogan

European Golden-Plover Pluvialis apricaria

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Identification

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Fairly common but often local, breeding on moorland and tundra, wintering in grasslands, fields, and less often coastal mudflats. Migrant and wintering birds often flock with lapwings. Smaller than Black-bellied (Gray) Plover, which has gray or silvery upperparts. All plumages of Golden are spangled and spotted golden above; breeding plumage has variable black on face and belly. Nonbreeding plumage is buffy golden overall with white belly. In flight shows bright white underwings, narrow whitish wing stripe.

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