While at the beach this past weekend, a lone sandpiper was patrolling the sand flats. Sandpipers are one of those groups of birds that I have always had trouble identifying; there seems to be a ...

We documented solitary and aggregative spacing patterns in Semipalmated Plovers (Charadrius semipalmatus) near Churchill, Manitoba. Pairs nesting on gravel directly on the coast nested in larger ...

If you’ve ever wondered how many shorebirds winter in San Francisco Bay, a report released last fall has the statistics. The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, in partnership with other nonprofits ...

Toward the end of the day I spotted a pair of what my birder friends call peeps pecking in the soft mud of the clam flats on Sandy Point. Peeps are particularly difficult to differentiate for someone ...

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The killdeer is a member of the plover family and is most closely related to small plovers such as the common semipalmated plover and the endangered piping plover. All belong to the Genus, Charadius, ...

Recent sightings (through Feb. 4) as reported to Mass Audubon. The ferruginous hawk continued at Morris Island in Chatham, where other sightings included a semipalmated plover, 12 black-bellied ...

Dear Bird Folks, Please take a look at the bird in the center of the attached photo and tell me if you think it’s an American Golden Plover. I’ve been looking for one of these birds all fall, but I’m ...

Julian R. Hough of New Haven is a veteran bird-watcher who’s put in many hours at Sandy Point in West Haven, a coastal birding hotspot. Sandy Point doesn’t always produce something interesting ...