According to the Cornell Birds of the World site, "There is a lengthy period of
fall migration since movements vary with breeding success and juveniles depart
considerably later than adults. Non-breeders leave 2–4 weeks before breeders,
and young some weeks after adults. Generally departs late August or early
September. During this time, species is widely dispersed as first arrivals on
overwintering grounds occur well before last departures from tundra. Spring
egress from the overwintering range and stopovers extends over several weeks,
apparently related to responses of particular populations to timing of snowmelt
on various breeding grounds."
Ronald Orenstein
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Mississauga, ON L5L 3W2
Canada
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On Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 02:56:05 a.m. EDT, Neville Pamment via
Birding-Aus <> wrote:
Laurie, Mike
Some wader records from my visit 17-23 July 2014: Pacific Golden Plover
(three or four birds, on lawns, at the Meteorology Station and Ba'hai
Temple, Apia); Wandering Tattler (about five in mangroves and on
mudflats, Apia harbour); Whimbrel (one near mangroves, Apia harbour);
Ruddy Turnstone (a group of 10 on a lawn by the sea wall, and small
groups on the High Court and Meteorology Station lawns).
regards
Neville
On 15/10/2023 12:54, Laurie Knight wrote:
> G’day Mike
>
> Sorry, I worded that the wrong way. Would birds sit out the breeding season
> in Samoa? It seems that September is early for birds that have bred in the
> northern hemisphere to arrive in Samoa.
>
> Regards, Laurie
>
>> On 15 Oct 2023, at 9:26 am, Michael Tarburton <>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Yes Laurie
>>
>> Golden Plovers do “winter” in Samoa. During the four years we lived there
>> we had many sightings on our campus lawns right through Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar.
>> There were even more at Mulinuu not far from our campus, near Apia. For
>> example on 15th Feb 1994, we recorded 1 Eastern Curlew, 12 Whimbrel, 3 Ruddy
>> Turnstone, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 5 Western Tattler, & 10 Golden Plover, all
>> at Mulinuu.
>>
>> Happy birding
>>
>> Mike Tarburton
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 14 Oct 2023, at 3:59 pm, Laurie Knight <> wrote:
>>>
>>> Following on from my previous post, we saw a lot of golden plovers on
>>> Samoa, where they tended to hang out on mown lawns.
>>>
>>> They all seemed to be in non-breeding plumage, which seemed to be a bit
>>> strange at the end of September. Is Samoa on the East Asian flyway? (It is
>>> to the east of 95% of the dateline).
>>>
>>> My question is whether Samoa a place where golden plovers hangout when they
>>> are siting out the northern hemisphere breeding season?
>>>
>>> Regards, Laurie
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