About the Book
This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: American Golden Plover, Arctic Skua, Arctic Tern, Avocet, Baird's Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-headed Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, Black-winged Stilt, Black Guillemot, Black Tern, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Caspian Gull, Caspian Tern, Collared Pratincole, Common Gull, Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, Curlew, Curlew Sandpiper, Dotterel, Dunlin, Glaucous-winged Gull, Glaucous Gull, Golden Plover, Great Black-backed Gull, Great Skua, Great Snipe, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Grey Phalarope, Grey Plover, Gull-billed Tern, Herring Gull, Iceland Gull, Ivory Gull, Jack Snipe, Kentish Plover, Kittiwake, Knot, Lapwing, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Lesser Yellowlegs, Little Auk, Little Gull, Little Ringed Plover, Little Stint, Little Tern, Long-billed Dowitcher, Long-tailed Skua, Marsh Sandpiper, Mediterranean Gull, Oystercatcher, Pomarine Skua, Puffin, Purple Sandpiper, Razorbill, Red-necked Phalarope, Redshank, Ring-billed Gull, Ringed Plover, Roseate Tern, Ross's Gull, Ruff, Sanderling, Sandwich Tern, Slaty-backed Gull, Snipe, Sociable Plover, Solitary Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, Spotted Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, Stone-curlew, Temminck's Stint, Turnstone, Western Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Whiskered Tern, White-rumped Sandpiper, White-tailed Plover, White-winged Black Tern, Wilson's Phalarope, Woodcock, Wood Sandpiper, Yellow Legged Gull. Excerpt: The American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica) is a medium-sized plover. Adults are spotted gold and black on the crown, back and wings. Their face and neck are black with a white border; they have a black breast and a dark rump. The legs are black. It is similar to two other golden plovers, Eurasian and Pacific. The American Golden Plover is smaller, slimmer and relatively longer-legged than Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) which also has white axillary (armpit) feathers. These birds forage for food on tundra, ...
