Saturday, November 18, 2006

American Golden Plover


Juvenile American Golden Plover, Pymore, 18th November 2006, © Richard Bonser.
This just shows how sharp-eyed one needs to be to pick one of these out of a large flock of Golden Plovers. The clues are in the prominent eye-stripe, slightly smaller in size, slimmer shape with an attenuated rear end, and a greyer wash to the under-parts.

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