This Golden-Plover Pluvialis sp. was among 1000+ American Golden Plovers and thousands of other shorebirds in some rice fields at the corner of H59 and FM530, NE of Edna, Jackson County, Texas on April 12, 2006:
Only three primary tips are visible beyond the longest tertials - which are very worn and thus probably not quite at their original length; the wing extension beyond the tail is a fair bit shorter than usual for American GP, and there are some spot-shaped pale marks on some of the fresher upperpart feathers:
