http://www.ptybirds.com/2009/02/09/santa-clara-beach-panama/wilsons-plover/ Bird photos and a few hiking tips from Panama Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:59:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.ptybirds.com/2009/02/09/santa-clara-beach-panama/wilsons-plover/comment-page-1/#comment-2069 Why I hate long walks on the beach « Biodiversity: the Blog Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:19:38 +0000 http://www.ptybirds.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wilsons-plover.jpg#comment-2069 [...] a few days at a nearby beach on the Pacific ocean.  I saw shorebirds like great white egrets and collared plovers and an unidentified species of sandpiper. I saw fiddler crabs abandoning their sand-rolling feeding [...] [...] a few days at a nearby beach on the Pacific ocean.  I saw shorebirds like great white egrets and collared plovers and an unidentified species of sandpiper. I saw fiddler crabs abandoning their sand-rolling feeding [...]

]]> http://www.ptybirds.com/2009/02/09/santa-clara-beach-panama/wilsons-plover/comment-page-1/#comment-1075 UH Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:18:14 +0000 http://www.ptybirds.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wilsons-plover.jpg#comment-1075 Thanks Bill will correct the name. Thanks Bill will correct the name.

]]> http://www.ptybirds.com/2009/02/09/santa-clara-beach-panama/wilsons-plover/comment-page-1/#comment-1074 Bill Maynard Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:00:39 +0000 http://www.ptybirds.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wilsons-plover.jpg#comment-1074 Your nice photograph is a Collared Plover, not a Wilson's Plover. Note the thinner bill and thinner collar along with hints of rufous on the nape and hind crown. Your nice photograph is a Collared Plover, not a Wilson’s Plover. Note the thinner bill and thinner collar along with hints of rufous on the nape and hind crown.

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