plovers

For every state vagrant that shows up at a feeder or in a public park, there seems to be one…

Last week we were visiting a local ephemeral lake when we were lucky enough to come across a Little Ringed…

Yesterday, Saturday, 19 July, an apparent European Golden-Plover was found in a sod field in western New Jersey in Pittsdown,…

Eagle-eyed readers of my posts will have noticed that I haven’t been talking about New Zealand much lately. When I’m…

It was whilst walking along the beach at Kommetjie, a coastal village near Cape Town in South Africa, that I…

Along Broome’s coastline there are a lot less shorebirds during this time of year and those that do remain are either…

Have you noticed that, at certain times of the year, many of us share similar weekend birding highlights? It stands…

Primarily, Lapwings are an Old World family with over 20 species including Australasia’s Masked Lapwing, Asia’s Yellow-wattled Lapwing and the…

Last October we had a rare visitor to Broome in the form of a Banded Lapwing Vanellus tricolor. It spent its…

I’ve written before about the two near identical plovers that breed here in Arctic Bay, The Semipalmated Plover and the…