golden plover

English

Noun

golden plover (plural golden plovers)

1. A migratory plover of the genus Pluvialis, having black underparts and a golden back in the breeding season, now regarded as the three species P. apricaria of Europe, P. fulva of the Pacific coasts, and P. dominica of North America.
   • 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 144:

     One bright clear June morning, I watch golden plovers strutting along the southern end of Koltur, picking tiny flies off the seaweed left behind by the tide on the basalt shelf at this lowest end of the island.

Derived terms

• Eurasian golden plover, European goldern plover (Pluvialis apricaria).
• Pacific golden plover (Pluvialis fulva).
• American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica).

Translations

Pluvialis apricaria

• Asturian: pollu tordu (ast), chiflón (ast)
• Catalan: daurada grossa f, fuell m
• Dutch: goudplevier (nl) m
• Faroese: lógv f
• Finnish: kapustarinta (fi)
• French: pluvier doré (fr) m
• Galician: píllara dourada
• Greenlandic: anngilik
• Irish: feadóg bhuí f, feadóg shléibhe f
• Norman: êprivyi doré m
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: heilo f

• Portuguese: tarambola-dourada f
• Russian: золоти́стая ржа́нка f (zolotístaja ržánka)
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: piiččus

  Lule Sami: hudi

  Northern Sami: bižus

  Skolt Sami: ča´ppesrâ´ddjeä´ǧǧlå´dd

  Southern Sami: sjorjehke

• Swedish: ljungpipare (sv) c
• Welsh: cwtiad aur m, rhostog rhudd m or f

Pluvialis fulva

• Dutch: Aziatische goudplevier (nl) m
• Finnish: siperiankurmitsa (fi)
• French: pluvier fauve (fr) m
• Swedish: sibirisk tundrapipare (sv) c

Pluvialis dominic — see American golden plover