BRDL 34

2/26/22 - PIPL- Piping Plover

These birds are well known to the residents of the beaches around Boston, since there has been a concerted effort to protect their nesting habitat along beaches. And some of the people around the beaches don't appreciate being restricted from using those parts of the beaches. These little plovers have a dark breastband and a black crown stripe, an orange black tipped bill, and yellow legs. They seem to be similar to semipalmated plovers, although the latter are more common and darker in color. I didn't know that there is a larger population of plovers that migrates to the upper midwest US and Canada, particularly, it seems, in North Dakota. 

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