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Semipalmated Plover Picture
 
 
Location: Malibu Lagoon, CA
GPS: 34.0W, -118.7N MAP
Date: September 14, 2007
Semipalmated Plover Picture
 
 
Location: Malibu Lagoon, CA
GPS: 34.0W, -118.7N MAP
Date: September 14, 2007


Semipalmated Plover Photo
 
 
Location: Malibu Lagoon, CA
GPS: 34.0W, -118.7N MAP
Date: September 14, 2007
Semipalmated Plover Photo
 
 
Location: Bolsa Chica, CA
GPS: 33.7W, -118.1N MAP
Date: June 16, 2007



SPECIES INFO

The Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) is a small plover.

Adults have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black neckband. They have a brown cap, a white forehead, a black mask around the eyes and a short orange and black bill.

Their breeding habitat is open ground on beaches or flats across northern Canada and Alaska. They nest on the ground in an open area with little or no plant growth.

They are migratory and winter in coastal areas ranging from the United States to Patagonia. They are extremely rare vagrants to western Europe, although their true status may be obscured by the difficulty in identifying them from the very similar Ringed Plover of Eurasia.

These birds forage for food on beaches, tidal flats and fields, usually by sight. They eat insects, crustaceans and worms.

This bird resembles the Killdeer but is much smaller and has only one band. The term "semipalmated" refers to its partly webbed feet.




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