Pacific Golden Plover

23-26 cm; span 60-72 cm. Smallest and most delicately built golden plover, but stands more upright, on proportionately longer legs than American or Eurasian Golden Plovers; wingtips extend just beyond tail tip.Non-breeding: pale buff forehead and face with distinct whitish to yellow-buff eyebrow; ear-coverts and upperparts brownish; yellow-buff spanglings on brown plumage of crown, back, wings and tail; breast buff-white with/without gold or white spangles; belly and undertail-coverts whitish. Juvenile: like Non-breeding adult; eyebrow more yellowish buff; crown and upperparts streaked and mottled brown, and plentifully spangled yellow; breast buff, mottled brown; flanks lightly barred brownish; underparts whitish. Breeding Plumage: face and breast black with narrow white border extending down flanks; belly and undertail-coverts white, or white, blotched black. Newly-arrived and soon-to-depart birds in moult are often patchy black below. Singles, small parties, occasional large open companies. In flight (Non-breeding), dusky grey-brown underwing; toes extend beyond tail tip. The brown, gold-speckled upperparts show indistinct pale wingbar and white shafts on primaries.