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The European golden plover tends to breed in the Arctic tundra and other moorland areas, ranging as far west as Iceland, where they are called Heiðlóa, and as far east as central Siberia; the southernmost breed in Wales and Belarus, after a small breeding population on Dartmoor in southwest England became extinct in about 2010.
An artificial body of water with populations of golden plover, gadwall, shoveller, teal and cormorants. Alde–Ore Estuary Suffolk: 25.47 4 October 1996 Arun Valley: West Sussex: 52.9 16 December 1999 Avon Valley: Hampshire: 13.85 2 February 1998 Benfleet and Southend Marshes
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 ...
Grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola) A – winter visitor and passage migrant Golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria) A – breeding resident, passage migrant, and winter visitor Pacific golden plover (Pluvialis fulva) A – rare vagrant American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica) A – scarce migrant Dotterel (Eudromias morinellus)
There are also a number of breeding birds including garganey, avocet, northern pintail, bearded reedling, hen harrier, short-eared owl, ruff, common tern and European golden plover. There are nationally scarce plants on dykes and the drier parts of the site, and the saltmarsh is dominated by salt grasses , the glassworts Salicornia , sea aster ...
This protected area includes the former SSSI called Oliver Hill. The site was designated because of its outstanding assemblage of upland breeding birds and the populations of golden plover and snipe that occur here. [1] There are populations of cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus) on Oliver Hill. Leek Moors SSSI includes Black Brook and Knotbury Common.
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
The aforementioned species are those primarily pursued for game shooting. To this list can be added birds as the feral pigeon, jay, magpie, carrion crow, jackdaw and rook, wood pigeon, woodcock, snipe, and the Golden plover. Mammals as the European rabbit are also hunted.