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black-bellied plover

  1. On board

    On board

    A Black-bellied Plover (not so black-bellied in winter, so more recognizable by its other name: Grey Plover) waiting out the tide at the edge of the Bay Trail. By this point, I had passed the city limits from Millbrae into Burlingame.
    • Doc Duck
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    • black-bellied plover grey plover pluvialis squatarola
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: North America
  2. Grey morning

    Grey morning

    After a long day's flight to San Francisco, I caught the hotel shuttle, checked in, and went early to bed. Next morning, I had an early breakfast, left my luggage in the hotel's care for a bit, and walked along the San Francisco Bay Trail back to the airport to pick up my rental car. First bird...
    • Doc Duck
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    • Comments: 10
    • Category: North America
  3. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola cynosurae)
    • Stanley Jones
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    • black-bellied plover cameron county pluvialis squatarola south padre island south padre island world birding and nature center subsp. cynosurae texas usa
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: North America
  4. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    Breeding in the high arctic and wintering along the coasts of all continents except Antarctica, this is one of the more cosmopolitan of our shorebirds. They are starting to molt into breeding (alternate) plumage. This male Black-bellied Plover is almost all the way there with just a few winter...
    • jmorlan
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  5. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    Note the lack of a rear toe (hallux) which helps distinguish this species from similar Golden-Plovers. This is the largest plover found in North America. In Texas, it is most commonly encountered along the coast. It is an adult female or a molting male almost in full breeding plumage. Three...
    • jmorlan
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  6. Black-bellied Plover.jpg

    Black-bellied Plover.jpg

    Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola cynosurae) also known as Grey Plover.
    • Stanley Jones
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    • black-bellied plover bryan grey plover pluvialis squatarola cynosurae texas tritex grass farm usa
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: North America
  7. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    • tetoneon
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    • black-bellied plover pluvialis squatorola
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: North America
  8. Black-bellied Plover, San Luis Pass 2.jpg

    Black-bellied Plover, San Luis Pass 2.jpg

    Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola cynosurae) Also known as Grey Plover.
    • Stanley Jones
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    • black-bellied plover galveston island grey plover jamaica beach pluvialis squatarola cynosurae san luis pass texas usa
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: North America
  9. Black-bellied Plover.jpg

    Black-bellied Plover.jpg

    Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola cynosurae) Also known as Grey Plover.
    • Stanley Jones
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    • black-bellied plover galveston island grey plover jamaica beach pluvialis squatarola cynosurae san luis pass texas usa
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: North America
  10. Black-bellied plover

    Black-bellied plover

    • katastrofa
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    • 1bb black-bellied plover canada grey plover pluvialis squatarola vancouver island winter
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  11. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover in Wooley Lagoon near Nome, Alaska.
    • Mross
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    • arctic black-bellied plover grey plover plover pluvialis pluvialis squatarola pluvialis squatoralo shore bird tundra worldwide.
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  12. Sharing

    Sharing

    Mostly the waders along the Bay Trail sort themselves into flocks-of-a-feather, but these two were sharing a rock quite amicably as they waited for the tide to go out.
    • Doc Duck
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    • black-bellied plover willet
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: North America
  13. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    I had always wondered why I would see this plover on the coast, but never the Golden-Plover. Then Stanley told me they feed mainly inland in fields.
    • tetoneon
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    • Comments: 18
    • Category: North America
  14. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    This day was not for birding, but I thought I'd bring my camera anyway. By the end of the day I was glad I had.
    • tetoneon
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    • Comments: 16
    • Category: North America
  15. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    • Neil
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    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
  16. Where's The Black?

    Where's The Black?

    • CurtMorgan
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    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  17. Black-bellied Plover and friends

    Black-bellied Plover and friends

    The two up front and center are the Black-bellies, to the right is a Short-billed Dowitcher, and behind it is a Dunlin.
    • tetoneon
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    • Comments: 17
    • Category: North America
  18. Black-bellied Plover AK SER'14

    Black-bellied Plover AK SER'14

    This bird was foraging in upland (dry) tundra.
    • rdavis
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    • alaska black-bellied plover cape woolley road nome
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  19. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    Finally made it into February, and it seems I'm at Bunche Beach State Park, at San Carlos Bay, Ft Myers. This coastline is just before you get on the causeway to Sanibel Island.
    • tetoneon
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    • Comments: 17
    • Category: North America
  20. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    The waders seemed quite at ease while foraging in and along this tidal pool, at Estero, Florida.
    • tetoneon
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    • Comments: 15
    • Category: North America
  21. Black-bellied plover

    Black-bellied plover

    What a monster!
    • Down the Shore
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  22. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    This juvenile comes close to looking like American Golden Plover but the bill is quite heavy, the flank pattern isn't quite right and supercillium (eyebrow) is less clean. I would have seen the black "armpits" in the field, which aside from the bill is the only truly useful feature.
    • Rick Whitman
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    • Comments: 15
    • Category: North America
  23. Headed North Again

    Headed North Again

    I love these guys. I saw my first five yesterday, only one of which was full breeding plumage. This photo is from May, 2012.
    • Rick Whitman
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    • black-bellied plover
    • Comments: 24
    • Category: North America
  24. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    I have never seen a golden plover here, maybe this week.
    • tetoneon
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    • Comments: 17
    • Category: North America
  25. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    juvenile, waiting out high tide
    • Rick Whitman
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    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
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