Silver plated plover
The plover silver plated is a migrating Limicole of intermediate size.
Identification
The silver plated plover is long on leg and has a rather short nozzle is thick by relationship with the other limicolous ones.In summer its plumage is contrasted: black in front of, above of the white head and back with the silver plated reasons.
Its winter plumage is more uniform and grisâtre.
Winter as be the silver plated plover has the black armpits, which differentiates it from the Pluvier gilded, a close species.
Lifestyle
The plover silver plated nidifie in Northern Europe and winters in Western Europe and Africa.Habitat
The silver plated plover attends the coastal mudholes and the marshes. In migration they attend also the plowed fields, the mud tanks and Argilière S.
List subspecies
- Pluvialis squatarola cynosurae (Thayer & Bangs, 1914)
- Pluvialis squatarola squatarola (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pluvialis squatarola tomkovichi Engelmoer & Roselaar, 1998