Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 2:14PM Wader, vagrant in American Golden Plover Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 12:49PM One at Angle Bay 29th April 2016.
"The American Golden Plover, which is still in winter plumage, was feeding and roosting on the spit in Angle Harbour from at least 13:00 to 13:45, and was sat about halfway along the spit on the seaward side with it's head under its wing when I left it". Posted by Clive H on the sightings blog.
The bird was seen and photographed by a number of people, and was still there at 17:00
Source: 2016 Pembrokeshire Bird Report
WRP, vagrant in American Golden Plover Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 6:14PM Vagrant
Taxonomic studies of what was called the Lesser Golden Plover resulted in its separation into two species, the Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva and the American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica (British Ornithologists Union Records Committee 1986).
A bird seen at Skokholm on 26 September 1981 (G.G. Gynn) was described in sufficient detail to retrospectively ascribe it to the American species, the first to be recorded in Wales.
