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Pacific
Golden Plover |
Pluvialis fulva |
CM |
Pacific
Golden-Plover |
Pluvialis
fulva |
30th
May, 2007 |
Full
Species (monotypic); i.e. no subspecies/races
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Common in the cold weather on the mud and sedge banks of the tidal creeks and wet paddy fields. At high tide, when the mud flats are covered, these Plovers congregate in largish flocks, and after circling round a few times often fly inland to the dry plains and uplands where they pass their time till the receding tide again leaves their feeding grounds accessible. They arrive early and leave late as compared with other migrants, and at one time I thought it possible that a few stayed to breed on the laterite plateau above the Ratnagiri station. On the 16th April one year I saw Golden Plover there in almost full breeding plumage, and on the 2nd September following shot young birds apparently too weak to have come a long journey. But I have since ascertained, beyond reasonable doubt, that no Plover do remain during the rains at Ratnagiri. |
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