You are browsing the archives of plovers.

This has to be the most unhealthiest winter I’ve ever known. If producing mucus were a cottage industry Jo, Evie, and myself would be up for a trade award. Evie, bless her, is drowning in the stuff. Jo is communicating more by subtle inflections in her barking coughs than using speech. And me - me, [...]

Remember our Evil Avian ID Quiz from last Wednesday? Here is the promised follow-up post and answer.
To review … here were the clues:

Locally common in spring in the Great Plains.
No subspecies.
Worldwide population less than 200,000.
All birds show a distinct whitish eyebrow that, in combination with the darker crown, give them a capped appearance.
Posture is [...]

Yesterday in New York was hot.  Way too hot.  Fortunately for Daisy and me our friends Kerry and Becky were heading to the beach and offered a ride.  And it wasn’t just any beach either, but the birding Mecca of Nassau County, Jones Beach.  The south wind was strong, the waves were huge, and we [...]

Just like Paula alerting me to the baby robins at her parents’, which have fledged, another coworker, Andrea, alerted me to a Killdeer nest at her sister and brother-in-law’s place in Malta, NY.  She actually called me last night to find out what kind of bird it was and to find out what they should do [...]

Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) by Charlie Moores
When shorebird season arrives, one group you should keep your eyes open for, no matter where on Earth you call home (unless for some inexplicable reason you live in Antarctica) are plovers.
Plovers are relatively small shorebirds, compact but gracefully tapered, somewhat reminiscent of teardrops with bird legs. Sixty-six [...]

Pivot Fields and Wimpey Pits, Dubai, UAE, and Al Jazera Hotel, Jebel Ali
01 March 2005
 
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a constitutional federation of seven emirates; Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah and Fujairah. The federation was formally established on 2 December 1971.

The UAE occupies an area of 83,000 sq km [...]