Talk:American Golden Plover

Australian?
Can someone explain to me why the American Golden Plover is listed in the Western Australia list of Birds when Australia is not even mentioned in the article Dragonchat20 09:11, 9 September 2007 (UTC)


 * It's pretty rare in Oz - Pacific is much more common. Jimfbleak 10:20, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

2500 or 25000 ?
The Text tells: "The bird has one of the longest known migratory routes of over 2500 miles". I think that the right distance is ten times more, from Alaska to Patagonia. --Wolfgang1018 (talk) 21:48, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I am concerned that it is actually rather less than 25,000 miles (both ways):- The maximum great circle distance from the extremes of North and South America is under 10,000 miles. Even if the birds went one way via Bermuda and back via Honolulu the distances are much less than 11,000 miles each way for 22,000 miles total. Or are there observations supporting even less direct paths? I doubt that they go the long path over Antarctica. Does anyone have more detail? Where might one find out? JMBryant (talk) 16:25, 9 May 2013 (UTC)


 * A 25,000 mile Great Circle takes you back where you started! The migration is a Great Circle, passing over the Atlantic, but the distance is clearly wrong. Although the breed right up to the Arctic, they don't reach southernmost Argentina. I wondered if it was km, not miles, but that seems too long also, and 2500 miles is too short  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  16:50, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

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