Update: I've added some comparative
photos of a bright dominica from a similar date, at the
bottom of the page.
This juvenile Lesser Golden Plover
was photographed in mid-September (not by me, and not in Texas!);
it is either a dominica that is exceptionally yellow, with
fulva-like spots on the mantle/scaps, thick golden crown streaks,
and narrow, yellowish supercilium, or it's a fulva with
still-growing tertials, longish (but not exceptional) wings, shortish
legs, and smallish bill... which is it?:
Below are images of a bright American
Golden Plover photographed by Colin Bradshaw at Port
Perry Sewage Lagoons in Ontario on 11th Sept., 2002:
