Black-bellied Plover*

Pluvialis squatarola

(L 11.5" WS 29" Wt 8 oz)

Montrose Beach

Chicago

14May2012

Quick alarm calls provide warn-
ing for other shorebirds
...largest No. Amer. plover.

*aka, the Grey Plover

Sometimes we heard a bittern boom,

Sometimes a piping plover,

Sometimes there came the lonesome cry

Of white gulls flying over.

(Harriet Prescott Spofford)