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The American golden plover is smaller, slimmer and relatively longer-legged than European golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria) which also has white axillary (armpit) feathers. It is more similar to Pacific golden plover ( Pluvialis fulva ) with which it shares grey axillary feathers; it was once considered conspecific under the name "lesser ...
The European golden plover spends summers in Iceland, and in Icelandic folklore, the appearance of the first plover in the country means that spring has arrived. [16] The Icelandic media always covers the first plover sighting, which in 2017, took place on 27 March, [17] and in 2020, on 16 March. [18]
The Pacific golden plover is more similar to the American golden plover, with which it was once considered the lesser golden plover. [8] The Pacific golden plover is slimmer than the American golden plover, has longer legs, and usually has more yellow on the back.
The lesser golden plover is the name for the composite species of birds which is now regarded as two separate species: American golden plover; Pacific golden plover
The genus Pluvialis was described by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the European golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria) as the type species. [1] [2] The genus name is Latin and means relating to rain, from pluvia, "rain".
European golden plover: Pluvialis apricaria (Linnaeus, 1758) 2 Pacific golden plover: Pluvialis fulva (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 3 American golden plover: Pluvialis dominica (Müller, PLS, 1776) 4 Tawny-throated dotterel: Oreopholus ruficollis (Wagler, 1829) 5 Rufous-chested dotterel: Zonibyx modestus Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823: 6 Diademed sandpiper-plover
Black-bellied plover, Pluvialis squatarola; American golden-plover, Pluvialis dominica; Pacific golden-plover, Pluvialis fulva (A) Killdeer, Charadrius vociferus; Semipalmated plover, Charadrius semipalmatus; Wilson's plover, Charadrius wilsonia; Collared plover, Charadrius collaris (A) Snowy plover, Charadrius nivosus (near-threatened)
Black-bellied plover, Pluvialis squatarola (A) Pacific golden-plover, Pluvialis fulva; Northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus; River lapwing, Vanellus duvaucelii; Yellow-wattled lapwing, Vanellus malabaricus; Gray-headed lapwing, Vanellus cinereus; Red-wattled lapwing, Vanellus indicus; White-tailed lapwing, Vanellus leucurus; Lesser sand-plover ...