Pacific golden plover
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The Pacific golden plover is a migratory shorebird that breeds during summer in Alaska and Siberia. During nonbreeding season, this medium-sized plover migrates widely across the Pacific.
Pluvialis fulva Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska, USA 8
Pluvialis fulva 2 Laem Pak Bia
In transition from non-breeding to breeding plumage
Pluvialis fulva—MHNT
Charadrius
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Charadrius is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds. The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. They are found throughout the wo
Pacific golden plover
…Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the other plovers in the genus Charadrius and coined the binomial name Charadrius fulvus. Gmelin based his description on the "Fulvous plover" that had been described in 1785 by the English…
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus, Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Cambridge, Maryland 7033351019
Killdeer
Charadrius hiaticula He 1
Semipalmated Plover Breeding Plumagein Churchill Canada