Bird Sightings : Hebrides : American Golden Plover and Buff-breasted Sandpiper

American Golden Plover and Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Pluvialis dominica - Tryngites subruficollis

Photograph © Andy Robinson
Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
September 2005

Juvenile bird

 

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

 

Buff-breasted Sandpiper Notes

• Dunlin sized wader
• Black eye on plain face, pale eye ring
• Legs mustard yellow
• Less than 20 UK records annually
• Diet: mostly invertebrates, plant seeds
• Habitat is tundra, grazing land, machair, estuaries, golf courses, air fields, pools or mudflats on the sea shore - prefers dry or short grass...
• Breeds in Northern Canada
• Winters in South America
• 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

 

Other local bird photographs

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