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1-14 of 14 Birds page: 1
Snowy Plover
Charadrius alexandrinus

 

5-7" (13-18 cm). A small whitish plover with pale brown upperparts, black legs, slender black bill, and small black mark on each side of breast. The similar Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) has stubbier yellow bill and yellow legs.… read more

Western Snowy Plover
Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus

6 1/2" (16.5 cm). Light gray-brown upperparts (including the rump), a conspicuous dark patch on either side of the breast, a white eyebrow extending back from the white forehead, dark ear coverts, a long, thin, black bill, and slate-colored legs. … read more

Common Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticula

7" (19 cm). Black breast band usually wide in center; white eyebrow often extensive, especially in male. Nearly identical to Semipalmated Plover,… read more

Piping Plover
Charadrius melodus

 

6-7" (15-18 cm). Sandy upperparts, narrow, incomplete black breast band, stubby bill with orange base, yellowish legs. Young similar, with black bill, broken gray breast band.… read more

Mongolian Plover
Charadrius mongolus

 

8" (20.5 cm). Warm brown upperparts, bright cinnamon-rufous crown, neck collar, breast band, upperparts; black mask, stripe over white forehead; underparts white; bill, legs blackish. Juveniles, winter adults, underparts white with buffy or grayish patches at sides of breast.… read more

Mountain Plover
Charadrius montanus

8-9 1/2" (20-24 cm). Breeding adult has black forecrown, white forehead, thin black eye line. In winter adults, young birds, face plain, dark eye conspicuous. In all plumages, whitish wing stripe, whitish wing linings, black band near tail tip.… read more

Eurasian Dotterel
Charadrius morinellus

8-9" (20-23 cm). A chunky Arctic plover. Breeding adult brown above, with bold white eyebrow, white band across breast, and russet breast. Winter adult and young are duller, with buff eyebrows and vague breast band.… read more

Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatus

 

6-8" (15-20 cm). Brown-backed plover, white underparts, 1 black breast band. Bill stubby, yellow-orange, dark tip. Immature; all-black bill, brownish breast band. Piping Plover similar but much paler above. Larger Killdeer has 2 black breast bands.… read more

Killdeer
Charadrius vociferus

 

9-11" (23-28 cm). Our largest "ringed" plover. Brown above and white below, with 2 black bands across breast, long legs, and relatively long tail. In flight, shows rusty uppertail coverts and rump.… read more

Wilson's Plover
Charadrius wilsonia

7-8" (18-20 cm). Male brown above and white below with a broad black eye patch and breast band, and heavy black bill. Female similar, but breast band is brown.… read more

American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominica

 

9-11" (23-28 cm). Breeding plumage, dull golden-brown above, black throat, breast, flanks, belly, undertail coverts; bold white stripe runs from forehead, over eye, down side of neck and breast. Winter, has bold whitish eyebrow, grayish-white underparts.… read more

Pacific Golden-Plover
Pluvialis fulva

 

9-11" (23-28 cm). Breeding plumage, narrow white stripe along flanks, mottled black & white undertail coverts. In winter plumage, has buff (not white) eyebrow, warmer brown upperparts, buff (not grayish) underparts.… read more

Black-bellied Plover
Pluvialis squatarola

 

10-13" (25-33 cm). Breeding adults gray, flecked light/dark above; black on face, breast; white on belly. Winter, face, breast, white. White wing stripe, white rump, black patch under wing. Young, upperparts flecked, yellow, breast, belly finely streaked.… read more

Northern Lapwing
Vanellus vanellus

12" (30.5 cm). A large, upland shorebird. Upperparts dark, glossed with greenish; underparts white with broad black breast band; head with black crown and long wispy crest. In flight has broad rounded wings with white tips and wing linings.… read more

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