Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)

Collier Co., FL
2 January 2004

Tigertail Beach on Marco Island
Collier Co., FL
2 January 2006

Note gray legs, pale back, black side-of-neck patch (on adults), and thin black bill.

Steve Howell found this bird early in the morning of 27 May 2006. Lex Glover and I relocated it a couple hours later. These blurry photos were digiscoped from a couple hundred yards under 25 knot winds.
Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC

Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)

The white dot in the middle of the circle is the Snowy Plover in this picture that was not taken through the telescope.