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Alaska Gap Analysis Project: Distribution Models for Terrestrial Vertebrate Species of Alaska
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Pacific Golden-plover Seasonal Range

Habitat

Nest on grassy arctic and subarctic tundra and sometimes montane tundra (Johnson and Connors 1996). Typically nest in dense vegetation on lower, dry to moist sites with fewer rocks where sympatric with American Golden-Plover (Connors et al. 1993).

References

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.

Project Reports

Final Report Species Atlas

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