Bird Sightings : Hebrides : American Golden Plover

 

American Golden Plover

Pluvialis dominica

Photographs © John Burgis
Fivepenny Machair- Ness - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
Monday, 24 September 2007

 

American Golden Plover Notes

• Just 5 UK annual records
• Breeds in North America
• Winters in South America
• Often when found is in company of golden plover
• Habitat tundra (migration mudflats, grazing land)
• Usually greyer, less yellow-brown than golden plovers, stonger head pattern
• Diet: insects, seeds, leaves, berries
• BTO records

 

Our American Golden Plover Photographs

Juvenile American Golden Plover (with buff-breasted sandpiper) September 2005 Ness	American Golden Plover Setember 2006 Ness	American Golden Plover September 2007 Ness	American Golden Plover September 2007 Ness

 

 

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