Small Golden Plovers. A. Pym's excellent paper on the identification of Lesser Golden Plovers Pluvialis dominica (Brit. Birds 75: 112-124) mentions the occurrences of 'apparent hybrids' in the USSR and Malta. I strongly suspect that such birds also appear in Britain. Since 1977, I have combed through every migrant and wintering flock of Golden Plovers P. apricaria that I have met closely. Twice in su

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