American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica)

County List:

Rule:

Nonforested Landscapes

Migration Habitat:
      (Lake or Pond or River)
   adjacent to:
      Shorelines/Mudflats

Habitat List:

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Literature:

It migrates every year from Arctic Alaska and Canada to southern South America. Flocks of northbound migrants are seen mostly in the heartland of our continent, on the Great Pains and the Mississippi Valley; there they often forage in open fields and prairies, far from water.

Habitat: Prairies, mudflats, shores; tundra (summer). During migration usually found on short-grass prairies, flooded pastures, plowed fields; less often on mudflats, beaches.

Diet: Mostly insects. In migration in open fields, eats wide variety of insects, including grasshoppers, caterpillars, larvae of beetles. On shores, also feeds on small crustaceans and mollusks.