This put up is just not a twitch, however it’s far more enjoyable to learn in the event you first dwell upon the feelings from the final image of Corey’s put up from East Pond, Jamaica Bay, 2015
It will be a daring birder that calls a Frequent Ringed Plover, Charadrius hiaticula the place Semi-palmated Plover, C. semipalmatus can also be an possibility. Fortunately, they’re nearly utterly mutually unique. Even when the toes, the attribute bodily distinction, will not be seen, it’s most likely secure to imagine.
The voices are completely different nevertheless and one can distinguish between the 2 species by their vocalisations. The Frequent Ringed Plover’s two-toned name is decrease and fewer refined than the Semi-palmated’s.
Very often although, one may stray down the japanese seaboard of the USA, however for probably the most half, those who breed in arctic Canada migrate in the direction of Europe and swell numbers there through the winter. On this half (sorry Corey) all these tundran breeders appear to have adopted the trail most flown.
This particular person was seen from the ferry jetty on the estuary of the River Thames within the UK. The concrete ramp collects seaweed because the tide pushes forwards and backwards. The seaweed, in its flip attracts bugs and thus birds.
The faint scalloping on the again means that it’s a younger fowl. I’m not ready to commit on its provenance; numbers on the estuary are already rising even earlier than the autumnal equinox and it could be inconceivable to tell apart home-grown birds from those who have flown in from Iceland, Greenland and excessive Canada.
