JUVENILE SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, PRESQU'ILE PROVINCIAL PARK, BRIGHTON, ON, 9/5/2015

      This plover is identified as a  juvenile Semipalmated Plover as follows:

• Single black breast-band
• Black patch around eye : in an adult this black patch extends across the forehead and above its bill; in a juvenile the extention is pale and may not be continuous.
• The bill in a juvenile can be all black, while in an adult it is orange and black.

   The Semipalmated Plover is new to our life List, which now stands at 152.