European Golden-Plover
Pluvialis apricaria
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Plovers and Lapwings
Call and song
Recording 1 · call, male
Recording 2
Recording 3
About the European Golden-Plover
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.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 81 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Albania
- Algeria
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bermuda
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- China
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Estonia
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Greenland
- Guernsey
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Iran
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Jersey
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Moldova
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Palestinian Territory
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Svalbard
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
