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American Golden-plover Seasonal Range

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Habitat

Nests on grassy arctic and subarctic tundra and sometimes montane tundra (Johnson and Connors 1996). Typically nest in sparse lower vegetation on higher well-drained rocky slopes where sympatric with Pacific Golden-Plover (Connors et al. 1993). In the Yukon, nests in dry tussock tundra or on small ridges surrounded by moist tussock tundra or hummocky tundra (Alexander et al. 2003).

References

Alexander, S. A., F. I. Doyle, C. D. Ecker, H. Grünberg, N. L. Hughes, M. Jensen, I. Johnson, D. H. Mossop, W. A. Nixon, and P. H. Sinclair. 2003. Birds of the Yukon Territory (P. H. Sinclair, W. A. Nixon, C. D. Eckert, and N. L. Hughes, eds.). UBC Press, Vancouver, B.C.

Connors, P. G., B. J. McCaffery, and J. L. Marion. 1993. Speciation in golden-plovers, Pluvialis dominica and P. fulva: evidence from the breeding grounds. Auk 110:9-20.

Johnson, O. W. and P. G. Connors. 1996. American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) and Pacific Golden- Plover (Pluvialis fulva). In The Birds of North America, No.201-202 (A. Poole and F. Gill, Eds.). Philadelphia: The Academy of Natural Sciences; Washington, D.C.: The American Ornithologists’ Union.

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