Above: An unexpected American Golden-Plover in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (9/6/2007). Its fresh, finely patterned plumage marks this individual as a juvenile bird. The four primaries visible beyond its tertials (rather than three), back color, and leg length all ruled out Pacific Golden-Plover. (You have to at least try!) Below: For the insanely optimistic, let's keep an eye out for something more like this... (O'ahu, Hawaii, 2/2/2007).

Below: An American Golden-Plover photographed in Worcester Co., Maryland (10/1/2006).

Below: A comparison of Black-bellied Plover (left) and American Golden-Plover (right). A flock of over 200 plovers, including at least 8 American Golden-Plovers, continued from 11/11 to at least 11/14. (Berlin, Maryland, 11/11/2010).

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