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The Pacific golden plover was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the other plovers in the genus Charadrius and coined the binomial name Charadrius fulvus . [ 2 ]
Pluvialis is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds comprising four species that breed in the temperate or Arctic Northern Hemisphere.. In breeding plumage, they all have largely black underparts, and golden or silvery upperparts.
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 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
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This is a list of the bird species recorded in Vietnam.The avifauna of Vietnam include a total of 963 species, of which 18 are endemic, and 5 have been introduced.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.
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.
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