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	MSN Encarta - Plover
		Plovers are distinguished from their similar shorebird relatives the sandpipers by their relatively short bills, which are enlarged and hardened at the tip.
		The killdeer is classified as Charadrius vociferus, the piping plover as Charadrius melodus, the semipalmated plover as Charadrius semipalmatus, the common ringed plover as Charadrius hiaticula, and the snowy plover as Charadrius alexandrinus.
		The fl-bellied plover is classified as Pluvialis squatarola, the American golden plover as Pluvialis dominica, the Pacific golden plover as Pluvialis fulva, and the Eurasian golden plover as Pluvialis apricaria.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562437/Plover.html (623 words)

	Pacific Golden Plover -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva) is a medium-sized (Any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers) plover.
		Pacific Golden Plover is smaller, slimmer and relatively longer-legged than (Click link for more info and facts about Eurasian Golden Plover) Eurasian Golden Plover, Pluvialis apricaria, which also has white axillary (armpit) feathers.
		A few winter in (A state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes) California and (A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands) Hawaii, (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) USA.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pa/Pacific_Golden_Plover.htm (306 words)

	Encyclopedia: American golden plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		American Golden Plover is smaller, slimmer and relatively longer-legged than Eurasian Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) which also has white axillary (armpit) feathers.
		The breeding habitat of American Golden Plover is arctic tundra from northern Canada and Alaska to Siberia.
		A comparison of dates and migratory patterns leads to the conclusion that Eskimo Curlews and American Golden Plovers were the most likely shore birds to have attracted the attention of Christopher Columbus to nearby land after 65 days at sea out of sight of land on his first voyage.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/American-golden-plover (302 words)

	pacific golden plover (pluvialis fulva): info fact sheet, photos
		Pacific Golden Plovers are among the most numerous of waders that can be seen in Sungei Buloh Nature Park during the migration season.
		Pacific Golden Plovers eat mainly bivalves and other molluscs on their wintering grounds; as well as worms, crustaceans, spiders.
		Pacific Golden Plovers find their food mainly by sight (as opposed to probing in the ground with their bills).
	naturia.per.sg /buloh/birds/Pluvialis_fulva.htm (792 words)

	NYSOA - Kingbird - New York's First Record of Pacific Golden-Plover
		The primary structural characters that distinguish Pacific from American are long legs, a long bill, short primary extension beyond tail and tertials, long tertials, the number of primaries projecting beyond the tertials, and the relative amount of leg showing in flight, as well as the overall “jizz”.
		Separating Pacific from American is thus based on both absolute characters (i.e., those with a definitive state), such as the backwards projection of the bill onto the face, or voice, and comparative characters, such as the size of the back spangles.
		The Pacific Golden- Plover is a long distance migrant that breeds on the tundra of eastern Siberia and western Alaska.
	www.nybirds.org /Publications/KB53no4_PacGoldPlover.htm (2472 words)

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		The Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva), known as the Kolea in Hawaiian, is the most common of Hawai'i's migrant shorebirds, with birds wintering in large numbers in almost all types of available habitat, from coastal pastures and wetlands, to parks and gardens, to the high altitude slopes of Haleakala Crater.
		Interestingly no American Golden Plovers had ever been recorded in Hawai'i up to and including April 2002, despite the fact that the species is a long-distance migrant and has been recorded frequently as a vagrant considerable distances from either its winter or summer ranges (eg.
		Pacific Golden Plovers breed in Siberian tundra from Yamal Peninsula eastwards and western Alaska.
	www.birdinghawaii.co.uk /XPGPlover2.htm (1218 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Pacific Golden-Plover
		This medium-sized plover is morphologically similar to the American Golden-Plover and previous to decisive studies, the two were regarded as subspecies.
		Depending on their geographical location, Pacific Golden-Plovers nest in habitats that range widely from dense vegetation and moist forest-tundra in the lower areas to dry, open gravel and lichens in the higher areas.
		Arrival back to the breeding grounds is influenced by latitude and annual variations in snowmelt, with the earliest arrivals (in the southern part of their range) in late April and the latest (in the northern reaches) by the end of June.
	www.audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=155 (1144 words)

	Polynesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term "Polynesia" was first coined by Charles de Brosses in 1756, and originally applied to all the islands of the Pacific.
		Not only does their oral tradition place importance on the flight of birds, but there are also range marks on shore pointing to distant islands in line with these flyways.
		This was greatly important as the depth of the Pacific made soundings useless.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polynesia (1454 words)

	Plover page
		Migratory plovers, like the golden-plovers, generally have a bright alternate plumage worn on nesting grounds while tropical plovers tend to look the same year-round.
		Biochemical evidence suggests the plovers, except for the enigmatic Magellanic Plover Pluvianellus socialis of southern South America (which Charles Sibley once suggested raising to family status!), all share a common ancestor (i.e., are holophyletic; see Piersma 1996).
		Pym, A. Identification of Lesser Golden Plover and status in Britain and Ireland.
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/plovers.html (742 words)

	Pacific Golden Plover Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A bird I believe to have been a Pacific Golden Plover was observed in Delaware on September 28, October 5, and October 6, 2003 in a harvested potato field along Delaware highway 9 between Whitehall Neck Road and the bridge into the town of Leipsic.
		The gold spots on the back were far more impressive in the field [see Larry Graff's photographs in the appendix] on the Pacific than on the Americans, and for this mark as well no American Golden Plover approached the amount of color on the Pacific.
		The yellowish background behind the stripes is normal for Pacific and was at least as evident in the field as on the photo.
	members.bellatlantic.net /~mvbiii/pacGolPlo.report.html (1699 words)

	Pacific Golden Plover at Rye Harbour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On 2nd April 2003 Paul Troake noticed a small, rather bright Golden-type plover whilst scanning through the goldie flock on the edge of the flood on the Flat Beach at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, East Sussex.
		He writes, "I was initially struck by the brighter colouration of this bird compared with the 400 accompanying goldies, in particular the yellow flared supercilium, and the coarse spangling on the upperparts.
		Amongst a flock of at least 200 Golden Plovers was a noticeably greyer bird - with barely any gold spotting on the upperparts - and it also showed a whiter supercilium.
	www.southeastbirdnews.co.uk /PacificGoldenPlover.htm (368 words)

	Pacific Golden Plover and Curlew Sandpiper on the Pacific Coast of North America
		There is obviously a considerable migration of ]ulva down the Pacific Coast in the fall, the adults preceding the young as is usual in the Limicoiae.
		A complete list of Pacific Coast and interior records of Pluvialis dominica ]ulva as known to the writer is as follows: Comox, Vancouver Island, November 2 and 4, 1903; 5 juveniles taken (not 3 as stated in "A Distributional List of the Birds of British Columbia").
		An examination of all Pacific-Coast-taken Golden Plover will prob- ably show further specimens of ]ulva; a doubtful specimen in worn plumage is in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in addition to the one recorded by Grinnell.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Condor/files/issues/v039n04/p0176-p0177.html (1156 words)

	Sandgrouse - Golden Plover in Jordan
		PETE M. 3 December 2000, we were undertaking a wildfowl count at Qa al Azraq, Jordan, as part of a programme of wildfowl surveys organised by the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN).
		While counting waders on the mud flats at the north end of the qa, two European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria were located feeding among 135 Lapwing Vanellus vanellus.
		Legs proportionately longer than in Lapwing, but not as long as in Pacific Golden Plover and clearly did not project beyond the tail in flight.
	www.osme.org /sand232/gplov.html (533 words)

	bookshelf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The plovers themselves are excellent navigators, beginning their journey at night and using stars and the sun to make their way between the Arctic tundra and Hawai'i.
		The golden plovers accomplish one of the world's longest over-water migrations, flying an average of 60 miles an hour, riding the high winds, pumping their wings, and burning fat they stored for energy while wintering in Hawai'i.
		On the Alaskan tundra, the golden plovers feed on lichens and berries; they nest and protect their young and fatten up the family before the return trip to Hawai'i each August.
	www.islander-magazine.com /goldplof.html (241 words)

	All About Birds
		The winter range of the Pacific Golden-Plover extends across nearly half of the earth's circumference, from California, to Hawaii, to Asia, to northeastern Africa.
		Pacific tends to be more golden on back in all plumages, but this is variable.
		Black-bellied Plover is larger, with a larger bill, and it has white rump, white stripe in wing, and dark armpits in all plumages.
	birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Pacific_Golden-Plover_dtl.html (656 words)

	Kienholz...plover central
		The male plover returns to the same area where he raised a family the previous summer, and courts a female to be his mate.
		There's virtually no way to live trap an adult plover on the tundra once the family has left the nest, so it has to be done while the parents are still taking turns incubating the eggs.
		Plover chicks don't require extended care or mouth to mouth feeding from their parents like baby robins.
	www.mnstate.edu /kienholz/golden_plover_research.htm (779 words)

	mangrove birds: waders (charadriidae, scolopacidae)
		Wading birds like plovers and sandpipers are present in large numbers on mudflats adjacent to mangroves during the winter months towards the end and the beginning of the year.
		Some 46 species of wading birds (12 plovers and 34 sandpipers) are known to visit Singapore on their annual migration.
		Plovers are distinguished from the sandpipers in having a relatively shorter bill.
	mangrove.nus.edu.sg /guidebooks/text/2117.htm (293 words)

	Pacific Golden-Plover in New Jersey
		The Pacific Golden-Plover had a more obvious golden tint to the mantle and scapulars.
		Although disturbed a couple of times by workers from the farm, the plovers were relatively silent and we did not detect any calls from the Pacific Golden-Plover.
		A phenomenal source of information is "The Tundra Plovers: The Eurasian, Pacific and American Golden Plovers and Grey Plover" (1998) by Ingvar Byrkjedal and Des Thompson, T andAD Poyser Press.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /NJPGP.html (893 words)

	THE OTTER SIDE - P Images
		This newly hatched Mountain Plover chick was photographed along the edge of a dirt road in the Pawnee National Grasslands, Colorado.
		Pacific Golden-Plovers breed in the high Arctic regions of northcentral and northeastern Russia, and western Alaska.
		This Pacific Golden-Plover, in full breeding plumage, was photographed along the rocks of "Navy Town" on Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
	www.otterside.com /htmfiles/p011-t.htm (505 words)

	* American Golden-Plover - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This species is seen in small numbers during migration along the shores of ponds and lakes and especially in the buffalo pasture...
		This plover makes one of the longest migrations in the world.
		Pacific Golden-Plovers and American Golden-Plovers overlap in time and location during migration, but Pacifics tend to migrate later...
	www.mimihu.com /bird/american_goldenplover.html (185 words)

	Birding in BC Community :: View topic - Golden Plovers
		What you want to notice on all these birds is their compact body, their way of moving deliberately and then stopping, and their fairly short bills, which, at close range, are quite stout and straight, but have a peculiar, characteristically "plover-ish" shape.
		A Pacific Golden Plover will have white blotches on flanks and undertail coverts but not a completely clean vent, which is usually dark on this species.
		Pacific Golden Plovers should show a yellowish cheek and face as well as crown.
	www.birding.bc.ca /community/viewtopic.php?t=264&view=next (1476 words)

	Haryana Birds - Pacific Golden Plover - Pluvialis fulva - CICONIIFORMES - Charadriidae - North India - Bird - Fauna
		Haryana Birds - Pacific Golden Plover - Pluvialis fulva - CICONIIFORMES - Charadriidae - North India - Bird - Fauna
		This bird is a scarce passage migrant in Haryana region.
		Nesting: 3 or 4 buff eggs, spotted with brown, in a shallow depression lined with moss, usually on a ridge.
	www.haryana-online.com /Fauna/Birds/pacific_golden_plover.htm (137 words)

	pacific golden plover (pluvialis fulva): info fact sheet, photos
		pacific golden plover (pluvialis fulva): info fact sheet, photos
		Pacific Golden Plovers breed in Siberian tundra and in West Alaska in June-July.
		The Pacific Golden Plover was recently separated from the Lesser/American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica) that is found in the Americas.
	www.naturia.per.sg /buloh/birds/Pluvialis_fulva.htm (792 words)

	The BirdWeb - Species Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pacific Golden-Plovers are territorial on breeding grounds, and some individuals defend feeding territories on wintering grounds.
		Pacific Golden-Plovers may cover 2,000 miles in a single nonstop flight from Alaska to the Pacific Islands, or they may stop along the way.
		Pacific Golden-Plovers do not appear to be threatened at this time, although commercialized exploitation and habitat loss still occur in parts of their winter range.
	www.birdweb.org /birdweb/species.asp?id=137 (652 words)

	Rare Birds in Spain: Identification
		Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva at Llobregat Delta, Barcelona, 28-30.8.2002
		Very good digital pictures could be taken and the identification features were clearly established, especially since the observation of an American Golden Plover at Aiguamolls de l'Empordà NP in april 2001 gave a good background for further observations of birds of this genus.
		The bird was a wader of the plovers family.
	www.rarebirdspain.net /arbsi020.htm (813 words)

	DearDiary.Net :: Ozone :: 15 Apr 2003 :: The Pacific Golden Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All but a few of the Golden Plovers, he older ones, and the weak, will be gone from the fields around my home.
		The winter plumage of brown and some golden spangling on the wings is the one normally seen.
		The Golden plovers are known to feed mostly on insects such as beetles, and occassionally small berries.
	www.deardiary.org /show/diaries/77226/1050364800 (428 words)

	Pacific Golden Plover
		The Pacific Golden Plover has a winter home and a summer home.
		When the golden plovers fly north, they fly in flocks and when they arrive in the northern breeding grounds, they land in:
		The term used when the golden plovers shed some feathers and grow new ones is:
	www.hawaii.edu /hga/GAW96/Plover.html (146 words)

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