pacific golden plover

Taken during my last road trip in December 2020 to Kuala Baram Wetlands, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. A video vlog was available at my youtube channel if you interested to see more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68nxf6CZEr4 Also thanks to members here for helping to ID these birds.

Yearly visitor from Alaska

Over 30 birds taken at distance

These were common throughout the island.

Pacific Golden Plover in Wooley Lagoon, Alaska.

Another regular migrant there is Pacific Golden Plover. We sometimes see them around San Francisco Bay as well, though their grey cousins are far more common there. And around the Bay Area I've only seen them in their black-bellied, breeding phase. I actually think they're most beautiful in...

Couldn't see a flight shot in Opus so thought I would post this one .

Coming into it's breeding plumage .

What a photogenic perch and pose this Pacific Golden Plover chose to show me today :D And he was so patient while I took pics of him too. As for me ... I just got caught up with corrections to my ebird lists. Also got a bit of knitting done this evening (must finish a project this week as...

Pacific Golden Plover, non breeding

A Brucie bonus before catching the ferry to Shetland. A long way off, but a cracking bird

I wish my attempts at photographing them yesterday turned out as sharp!!!

Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva taken in Olango Island, Cebu, Philippines

It must have been a tiring but a great migration for these birds. Enjoying the marsh lands of the Indian subcontinent.

Feeding in the muddy margins of this ever receding lagoon . Rain is badly needed.

On the Temple Grounds at the Valley of the Temples Memorial Park at the foot of the Koolau mountains, overlooking Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii

This is not my best image, the sun was down and the lighting was very poor, however it is a rare sighting around here. I stopped by to see the avos again and this fellow was there. I said to myself, you look new a new lifer so I took as many images I could til I got one that I could be happy...

Of course the only one that came close wasn't showing breeding color.

One of the goldens down under the mesquites paused to do an impressive left leg and wing stretch. This is the best of the shots I got of that wing extension demo.

Had to keep my eyes glued to that gravel road, dodging potholes to and from Makena Beach. As I neared the highway on my way out, I nevertheless caught a glimpse of two Pacific golden plovers down in the dust and duff under the trees and along the road. I was running out of birding time, but...

This Pacific golden plover was doing an exact imitation of Michael Palin's "not particularly silly" walk in the famous Monty Python sketch. "The right leg wasn't silly at all and the left leg only did a forward aerial half turn and pause every other step." Not precisely a...