Swift and graceful in flight, the American Golden-Plover is probably one of the fastest fliers among shorebirds, and with good reason: it migrates every year from Arctic Alaska and Canada to southern South America. Their striking spring plumage is seen mostly in the heartland of our continent, on the Great Plains and the Mississippi Valley where they often forage in open fields and prairies, far from water. But in the wake of long-term population losses and accelerated declines within the past decade, these elegant plovers are now listed as an Orange Alert Tipping Point species in the latest State of the Birds report.

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