PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER

Photographed near Shoalhaven Heads, NSW

424           PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER         Pluvialis fulva

Australia          (298)

Also known as Eastern or Lesser Golden Plover. Found in estuaries, mudflats, salt marshes, mangroves, rocky reefs and stranded seaweed on beaches, margins of shallow open inland swamps, sewerage ponds, short-grassed paddocks, airfields. Breeds in ne. Siberia and w. Alaska, summer migrant to PNG and Australia; mostly coastal, all Australian coast, but sometimes inland.

This and the picture below were photographed at Lincoln National Park, South Australia March 2015