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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 Pacific golden plover (Pluvialis fulva) is a migratory shorebird that breeds during summer in Alaska and Siberia. During nonbreeding season, this medium-sized ...
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.
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". It was believed that they flocked when rain was imminent. [3] The genus contains four species: [4]
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
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
American golden-plover, Pluvialis dominica (A) Pacific golden-plover, Pluvialis fulva (A) Northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus; Sociable lapwing, Vanellus gregarius (A) White-tailed lapwing, Vanellus leucurus (A) Lesser sand-plover, Charadrius mongolus (A) Kentish plover, Charadrius alexandrinus; Common ringed plover, Charadrius hiaticula
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