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Pacific Golden-Plover

Pluvialis fulva ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: CHARADRIIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Pacific Golden-Plover Photo

© Arthur Morris

A beautiful shorebird, the Pacific Golden-Plover breeds in western Alaska and Siberia and winters on islands across the Pacific Ocean, through southeast Asia, to northeastern Africa. It is uncommon in North America, found breeding in Alaska, and migrating and wintering in small numbers along the Pacific Coast.

Calls

  • Calls
     
    Recorded by Kevin J. Zimmer
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Song a series of slow, slurred whistles with pauses between the phrases. Flight call a whistled "chu-eet," with accent on the second syllable.

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