Primarily, Lapwings are an Old World family with over 20 species including Australasia’s Masked Lapwing,...
Last October we had a rare visitor to Broome in the form of a Banded...
I’ve written before about the two near identical plovers that breed here in Arctic Bay,...
The Killdeer is a wide-ranging plover. It breeds across much of North America, is present...
If you haven’t been to Trinidad and Tobago, you’re missing out on a country that...
Oriental Plovers Charadrius veredus are a species of shorebird that we see in varying numbers...
The air was thick and clammy, and mosquitoes were biting along Louisiana’s Mermentau River last...
It had to happen eventually! We have all been waiting for the rain to arrive...
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