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Common Ringed Plover
Resembles the Semipalmated
Plover...breeds in north Eurasia
and Arctic Canada.
Charadrius hiaticula
(L 7-8" WS 13.8-16.1")
Nairobi National Park
18Oct2014
Lake Bogoria
29Oct2014
A bird that runs and hides
when it doesn't comprehend
a simple poem like a haiku
and pipes deleted words
like someone demented
come out, plover!
      (Michael Pruchnicki)
© Andrew
Spencer
Macaulay
Library
© Wikipedia
Charadrius is Late Latin for a
yellowish bird mentioned in the
Vulgate bible (AD383); hiaticula is
Latin for cleft dweller.