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The semipalmated plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) is a small plover. Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, "ravine"). The specific semipalmatus is Latin and comes from semi, "half" and palma ...
These can be (in the adult) single complete bands (ringed, semipalmated, little ringed, long-billed),or double or triple bands (killdeer, three-banded, Forbes'). They have relatively short bills and feed mainly on insects, worms or other invertebrates, depending on habitat, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady ...
Black-bellied plover: C - C C Snowy plover: U U U F Semipalmated plover: F - F - Killdeer: U U F C Black oystercatcher: U U U U Black-necked stilt: U - F F American avocet - - U U Greater yellowlegs: F - F U Lesser yellowlegs - - U - Willet: C U C C Wandering tattler: U - U - Spotted sandpiper: U - U U Whimbrel: F - F U Long-billed curlew: U ...
Common ringed plover: Charadrius hiaticula Linnaeus, 1758: 10 Semipalmated plover: Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 1825: 11 Piping plover: Charadrius melodus Ord, 1824: 12 Hooded dotterel: Charadrius cucullatus (Vieillot, 1818) 13 Forbes's plover: Charadrius forbesi (Shelley, 1883) 14 Three-banded plover: Charadrius tricollaris Vieillot ...
Semipalmated plover; Semipalmated sandpiper This page was last edited on 30 December 2019, at 02:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Semipalmated plover. The family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short thick necks, and long, usually pointed, wings. They are found in open country worldwide, mostly in habitats near water. Southern lapwing, Vanellus chilensis (A)
The legs are orange and only the outer two toes are slightly webbed, unlike the slightly smaller but otherwise very similar semipalmated plover, which has all three toes slightly webbed, and also a marginally narrower breast band; it was in former times included in the present species. Juvenile ringed plovers are duller than the adults in ...
The eastern bluebird is New York's state bird The following list of birds of New York included the 503 species and a species pair of wild birds documented in New York as of August 2022. Unless noted otherwise, the source is the Checklist of New York State Birds published by the New York State Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) of the New York State Ornithological Association. These species ...