One of the 6 plovers on WAnimals
Birds · Charadriiformes · Charadriidae
Pacific Golden Plover
Pluvialis fulva
Least Concern
The species is abundant and widely distributed; it faces no significant short-term risk.
The Pacific golden plover breeds on the Arctic tundra of Siberia and Alaska and spends the winter spread across the Pacific and South-East Asia, from Hawaii to Australia. It is a very long-distance migrant: those that winter in Hawaii cross more than 4,500 kilometres of open ocean without a single stop. It shows extraordinary fidelity to its wintering grounds, and the same individual returns year after year to the same garden or the same field.
Weight
100 g – 190 g
Size
23 cm – 26 cm
Life expectancy
20 years
