This put up isn’t a twitch, however it’s a lot more amusing to learn if you happen to first live upon the feelings from the closing image of Corey’s put up from East Pond, Jamaica Bay, 2015
It might be a daring birder that calls a Not unusual Ringed Plover, Charadrius hiaticula the place Semi-palmated Plover, C. semipalmatus may be an possibility. Fortuitously, they’re virtually totally mutually unique. Even if the ft, the function bodily distinction, don’t seem to be visual, it’s most likely protected to think.
The voices are other alternatively and one can distinguish between the 2 species via their vocalisations. The Not unusual Ringed Plover’s two-toned name is decrease and no more refined than the Semi-palmated’s.
Very on occasion regardless that, one would possibly stray down the jap seaboard of the US, however for essentially the most section, those who breed in arctic Canada migrate in opposition to Europe and swell numbers there throughout the wintry weather. On this section (sorry Corey) all the ones tundran breeders appear to have adopted the trail maximum flown.
This person was once observed from the ferry jetty at the estuary of the River Thames in the United Kingdom. The concrete ramp collects seaweed because the tide pushes backward and forward. The seaweed, in its flip draws bugs and thus birds.
The faint scalloping at the again means that this is a younger hen. I’m really not ready to dedicate on its provenance; numbers at the estuary are already expanding even sooner than the autumnal equinox and it could be unimaginable to differentiate home-grown birds from those who have flown in from Iceland, Greenland and prime Canada.
