American Golden-Plover

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden-Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

A Black-bellied Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

Note the whitish belly, streaked breast (not barred) and lack of a dark cap; Field marks that make this a winter-plumaged Black-bellied Plover and not an American Golden Plover [October; Estero Beach, Fort Meyers, Florida]

Note the whitish belly, streaked breast (not barred) and lack of a dark cap; Field marks that make this a winter-plumaged Black-bellied Plover and not an American Golden Plover [October; Estero Beach, Fort Meyers, Florida]

An American Golden-Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]

Note the whitish belly, streaked breast (not barred) and lack of a dark cap; Field marks that make this a winter-plumaged Black-bellied Plover and not an American Golden Plover [October; Estero Beach, Fort Meyers, Florida]

An American Golden Plover with nearly adult plumage stops over on Lake Superior on its way to Arctic breeding grounds [May; Park Point, Duluth, Minnesota]