NONBREEDING LITTLE RINGED PLOVER, CIRCEO NATIONAL PARK,SABAUDIA,ITALY, 10/2/2019

   We can ID this plover as a juvenile Little Ringed Plover as follows:

• Yellow eyerings
• Brownish cap and face with buffish supercilium
• Brownish upperparts
• You can just make out the narrow black, nape portion of its collar, but can't see the front of the plover.  Above the black collar is a white collar.
• What we can see of the underparts are whitish

   The Little Ringed Plover is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 957.

 

 

MALE EURASIAN WIGEON IN FLIGHT, CIRCEO NATIONAL PARK,SABAUDIA,ITALY, 10/2/2019

NONBREEDING BLACK-HEADED GULL IN FLIGHT, CIRCEO NATIONAL PARK,SABAUDIA,ITALY, 10/2/2019

NONBREEDING HORNED GREBE OR SLAVONIAN GREBE, CIRCEO NATIONAL PARK,SABAUDIA,ITALY, 10/2/2019

LONG-TAILED TIT, CIRCEO NATIONAL PARK,SABAUDIA,ITALY, 10/2/2019

   We can ID this bird as a Long-tailed Tit as follows:

• Very long, black-and-white tail that is longer than its body
• Whitish head and throat with broad black band from side of forehead back along crown side to nape
• Whitish underparts tinged with pink
• Tiny, black triangular bill

   The Long-tailed Tit is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 956.

GREY HERON, CIRCEO NATIONAL PARK,SABAUDIA,ITALY, 10/2/2019

EURASIAN COOTS, CIRCEO NATIONAL PARK,SABAUDIA,ITALY, 10/2/2019