Black-bellied Plover (winter plumage)
Pluvialis squatarola

f4.5 @ 1/8000s, ISO:800, Nikon D3S w 500mm


"Grey Plover," Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. They migrate to winter in coastal areas throughout the world. In the New World they winter from southwest British Columbia and Massachusetts south to Argentina and Chile, in the western Old World from Ireland and southwestern Norway south throughout coastal Africa to South Africa, and in the eastern Old World, from southern Japan south throughout coastal southern Asia and Australia, with a few reaching New Zealand. Most of the migrants to Australia are female. It makes regular non-stop transcontinental flights over Asia, Europe, and North America, but is mostly a rare vagrant on the ground in the interior of continents, only landing occasionally if forced down by severe weather, or to feed on the coast-like shores of very large lakes such as the Great Lakes, where it is a common passage migrant.
Black Beach, West Falmouth, Massachusetts
 
10/14/2020