First-summer American Golden Plover in the Cuckmere
A real beauty found by Matt retaining its worn juvenile brown primaries and plenty of winter-type coverts and tertials but also sporting some boldly patterned summer-type mantle feathers and scapulars. Note the long primary projection (longer than its bill) being comprised of four visible primary tips projecting beyond its longest coarsely-notched tertial.
First-summer American Golden Plover in the Cuckmere (JFC)
Smoky-grey axillaries and underwing coverts and some dark-centred undertail coverts
American Golden Plover in the Cuckmere
