Greetings. Today, Andrew Baksh, www.birdingdude.blogspot.com , located TWO,
Bahamas plovers (among 40+ pipers) at Breezy Point, Queens County, NY. The
birds were marked in February at the same site on Andros Island, four days
apart! Neither of the birds nested on Breezy Point (although another Bahamas
bird did, successfully).
Read Andrew's blog, above, to see/learn more about his sightings. See also:
http://dendroica.blogspot.com/2010/07/color-marked-plovers-moving-south.html
for info on The Bahamas plover band combinations and reporting.
Piping Plovers are on the move. It usually takes a scope to find a marked bird
and to be certain of the colors.
You cannot find a Bahamas plover unless you look! Good shorebirding.
Peter Doherty
leasttern at hotmail.com
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
