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.