golden plover

golden plover (plural golden plovers)

1. A migratory plover of the genus Pluvialis, having black underparts and a golden back in the breeding season, now regarded as the three species P. apricaria of Europe, P. fulva of the Pacific coasts, and P. dominica of North America.
   • 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 144:

     One bright clear June morning, I watch golden plovers strutting along the southern end of Koltur, picking tiny flies off the seaweed left behind by the tide on the basalt shelf at this lowest end of the island.

• Eurasian golden plover, European goldern plover (Pluvialis apricaria).
• Pacific golden plover (Pluvialis fulva).
• American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica).