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A large number spends the winter on south and central Pacific coasts and islands flying up to 4,500 kilometres nonstop over the Pacific. It used to be considered a composite species with the closely related American Golden Plover (P. dominica) and was called \u201cLesser Golden Plover\u201d. Studies in Alaska, where both species occur together, however, revealed that they do not mix.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogelwarte.ch\/en\/birds-of-switzerland\/pacific-golden-plover\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vogelarten: Pacific Golden Plover\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Pacific Golden Plover breeds in Northern Siberia and Western Alaska. 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