Birds of the World


European Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) Range: PAL: inland low Arctic (mainly) to temperate zone: ec Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Is., British Isles, n Germany and Denmark, Fennoscandia, Baltic e to Taimyr Pen. (nc Russia) Finland
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American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica) Range: NA: high Arctic to subarctic, Alaska and n, ne Canada: nw, n, e Alaska, Yukon to nc British Columbia e to w Hudson Bay and Baffin I. (ne Canada) Wahoo, Nebraska, United States The non-breeding American Golden Plover looks a lot like the non-breeding Grey Plover, but check for a thicker eyebrow.
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American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica) Range: NA: high Arctic to subarctic, Alaska and n, ne Canada: nw, n, e Alaska, Yukon to nc British Columbia e to w Hudson Bay and Baffin I. (ne Canada) Nome, Alaska, United States
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Golden Plovers have gold feathers on the back in breeding plumage. The similar Grey Plover does not.


Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva) Range: PAL: Arctic mainland Russia and subarctic e Russia and w Alaska: Yamal Pen. (nc Siberia) to Chukotskiy Pen., n Kamchatka and n Sea of Okhotsk (e Siberia), and Wrangel I. (n of ne Siberia); Chukchi and Bering Sea coasts of w Alaska and satellites, including St. Boat Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
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Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) Range: NA, PAL: high (locally low) Arctic coasts and is. (except Ellesmere I., Greenland, Scandinavia and is. from Svalbard to Severnaya Zemlya) Long Key State Park, Florida Keys, USA
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Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) Range: NA, PAL: high (locally low) Arctic coasts and is. (except Ellesmere I., Greenland, Scandinavia and is. from Svalbard to Severnaya Zemlya) Curry Hammock State Park, Florida, USA
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Once called the Black-bellied Plover because of black belly in breeding plumage. The non-breeding Grey Plover looks a lot like the non-breeding American Golden Plover, but check for a thin eyebrow, and black feathers inside the wing where it meets the body (axillaries) (Birds of Costa Rica).