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Plover, Eurasian Golden

  


Name: Plover, Eurasian Golden

Scientific name: Pluvialis apricaria

Type: Lapwings and Plovers

Color: Black,Brown,White

Habitat: Coast,Ocean,Water

Size: 28cm




Conservation status:

Rare Winter Visitor


Description:

Has heavy, short-necked and pot-bellied appearance, comparatively short legs and bill, white underwing coverts and axillaries. Adult breeding is strikingly coloured black, white and golden; very contrasting in flight from below with white underwings and black belly; feet do not extend beyond tip of tail. Flight pattern above is rather uniform, dark brown spotted golden with faint wing-bar mainly shown in primaries, no white in tail. Non-breeding and immatures have faint yellow-buff supcrcilium. Larger Grey Plover has black axillaries, stronger bill, white rump and grey appearance.