European Golden-Plover
Pluvialis apricaria
Fairly common but often local, breeding on moorland and tundra, wintering in grasslands, fields, and less often coastal mudflats. Migrant and wintering birds often flock with lapwings. Smaller than Black-bellied (Gray) Plover, which has gray or silvery upperparts. All plumages of Golden are spangled and spotted golden above; breeding plumage has variable black on face and belly. Nonbreeding plumage is buffy golden overall with white belly. In flight shows bright white underwings, narrow whitish wing stripe.
识别特征
The European golden plover is quite thickset, with its wings only being slightly longer than its tail. Its most distinct feature is a white "s"-shaped band stretching from its forehead to its flanks.
分类信息
The European golden plover was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with the other plovers in the genus Charadrius and coined the binomial name Charadrius apricarius. The species is now placed in the genus Pluvialis that was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. The genus name is Latin and means "relating to rain", from pluvia, "rain". It was believed that golden plovers flocked when rain was imminent. The species name apricaria is Latin and means "to bask in the sun". The European golden plover is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
- 学名
- Pluvialis apricaria
- 命名信息
- (Linnaeus, 1758)
- 目
- Charadriiformes
- 科
- Charadriidae
- 属
- Pluvialis
分布与栖息地
The European golden plover tends to breed in the Arctic tundra and other palearctic areas, ranging as far west as Iceland, where they are called Heiðlóa, and as far east as central Siberia. It tends to gather in large flocks and winter in open areas, agricultural plains, ploughed land, and short meadows, ranging from Europe to North Africa.<p>In the United Kingdom, golden plover chicks rely on Tipulidae for feeding, while in Sweden Bibionidae are more important.
- 繁殖区
- PAL : inland low Arctic (mainly) to temperate zone: ec Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Is., British Is., n Germany and Denmark, Fennoscandia, Baltic e to Taimyr Pen. (nc Russia)
- 非繁殖区
- to inland and coastal s Europe, n Africa to Middle East
- 迁徙
- Complete migrants
行为
The European golden plover's call is a monosyllabic, slightly descending, melancholic "tuu".<p>Its flight action is rapid and powerful, with regular wingbeats.
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- rising
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