American Golden-Plover                          Pluvialis dominica (Müller)

Pacific Golden-Plover                                Pluvialis fulva (Gmelin)

The photos below are organized by day of the year.  Clicking on an image thumbnail will take you to a larger photo.  They have also been set up in manual slide show format, so you may view them sequentially without returning to this page.  Images are best viewed full screen at a resolution of 800 x 600 or greater.  Special thanks to Mike Tabak for analyzing the plumages of these birds.

For more info on golden-plover identification, check out Alvaro Jaramillo's article in "Western Birds" Vol. 35, No. 2, 2004 and Joseph Morlan's article linked from http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/pub.htm

Please feel free to e-mail your comments on identification and ages of any of these birds to Michael G. Shepard at info@birdinfo.com  Each of the thumbnails below is numbered for easy reference.