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Snowy Plover sheltering
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Barrier beach, Marco Island, 19 January 2009 |
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Ron Pittaway and I were keen to see
wintering shorebirds because in Ontario we do not see them in full
basic (winter) plumage. We saw 23 species of shorebirds. The following is a
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Page 4 of 6. Scroll down
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Snowy Plover at Little Estero
Lagoons on 18 January 2009 |
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Piping Plover at
Tigertail Beach, Marco
Island, on 19 January 2009 |
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Wilson's Plover at Marco
Island on 19 January 2009 |
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Black-bellied Plover at
Tigertail Beach on 19 January 2009 with alternate plumage. Was it
retained alternate plumage or is it molting early into alternate
plumage? |
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Black-bellied Plover
in basic plumage at Tigertail
Beach on 19 January 2009 |
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Semipalmated Plover at Little Estero Lagoons on
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January 2009 |
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