Full and Plover, Outer banks, NC, USA, First week August (1 Viewer)

oleic

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• Sep 8, 2019

• #1

Gull and Plover, Outer banks, NC, USA, First week August

Hi

Some ideas_

Thanks

 

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SteveClifton

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• Sep 8, 2019

• #2

#1 Least Tern 1st calendar year
#2 Royal Tern with Common Tern to left, and presumably others behind
#3 Forster's Tern
#4 American Golden Plover

 

dwatsonbirder

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• Sep 8, 2019

• #3

SteveClifton said:

#1 Least Tern 1st calendar year
#2 Royal Tern with Common Tern to left, and presumably others behind
#3 Forster's Tern
#4 American Golden Plover

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Agree with your ID's for the terns, but why isn't the plover a Grey?

 

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SteveClifton

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• Sep 9, 2019

• #4

dwatsonbirder said:

Agree with your ID's for the terns, but why isn't the plover a Grey?

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Because I carelessly overlooked that possibility! Grey it is.

 

birdboybowley

Well-known member.....apparently so ;)

• Sep 9, 2019

• #5

Grey plover

 

jmepler

It's just a flesh wound.

• Sep 9, 2019

• #6

Or Black-bellied Plover as it is called in the US.

You can see the hind-toe, that eliminates Golden-Plover.

 

Jeff Hopkins

Just another...observer

• Sep 9, 2019

• #7

Agree with Black-bellied.

 

rollingthunder

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• Sep 10, 2019

• #8

I didn’t realise that AGP doesn’t have a hind-toe. That’s a nice little detail:t:

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