PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER

Photographed March 2017

(*    424)                   PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER                   Pluvialis fulva 

SRI LANKA                 51    

                  

Found in open grasslands, near water, mudflats, dry paddy fields and lagoon shores. 23-26 cm. Fairly common winter migrant to lowlands, more common in dry lowlands.

    

PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

(see   424)                  PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER              Pluvialis fulva

SINGAPORE               (44)

Common winter visitor and passage migrant; found on coastal mudflats, sandy shores, wet grasslands and open scrubby fields, including playing fields. Breeds in Arctic tundra across NE Russia and Alaska; winters in East Africa, Indian sub-continent and access S China and Southeast Asia, east to SW Pacific.