FIRST RECORD OF THE EUROPEAN GOLDEN-PLOVER (PLUVIALIS APRICARIA) FROM THE PACIFIC

Abstract

The European Golden-Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) breeds from Iceland and the British Isles east to the base of the Taimyr Peninsula, Russia, at about 102°30′E (Vaurie 1965). Virtually the entire population migrates to or through Europe to winter in the British Isles, western Europe, and throughout the Mediterranean Basin. Small numbers winter as far east as the southern Caspian Sea and occasionally to eastern India, and small numbers winter on the Atlantic coast of Africa, occasionally south to Gambia (Vaurie 1965; Cramp 1983).