These Pacific Golden-Plovers Pluvialis fulva were photographed by Laurie Knight on the central coast of eastern Australia (in and near Brisbane) on January 29, 2008:
- in the crop below I'v moved the leftmost (presumed first-cycle) bird in-between the other two birds (older?) for comparison of the upperparts, tertials, and primaries:
Flight/open wing shots:-
The only sign of molt in the flight feathers is on a couple of birds that appear to have not quite finished growing P10. Also I cannot detect any difference in the age of the primary feathers among any of the flying birds, despite there being birds of different age classes that includes what I feel are first-cycle birds:
