Pacific vs American Golden Plover
There’s a nice discussion of Pacific vs American Golden Plover on the “Advanced Bird ID” FB page. You’ll have to join that group to see the rest of post.

There’s a nice discussion of Pacific vs American Golden Plover on the “Advanced Bird ID” FB page. You’ll have to join that group to see the rest of post.

13 species of shorebirds at Hornsby yesterday including some very colorful birds. Also nice of them to build so much additional Spotted Sandpiper habitat!!
A few from Galveston
Here’s a first of season gull for me that showed up at Hornsby this morning. If you can ID, maybe you’d enjoy taking the I Don’t Do Gulls Gulls Class which starts in November?. If you can’t ID, maybe you’d enjoy taking the I Don’t Do Gulls Gulls Class which starts in November? If you…
What a great trip to the coast with the 2022 TAS Shorebird Class!!! Highlights for me were the Aplomado falcons and Elegant Tern (life bird!!), as well as the good company of bird nerds !!
Here’s a few stills of this charismatic species.
I couldn’t sit still with so many rare birds present in Texas — especially when one was a first state record Gull !!!! So I opted for Amarillo (rather than RGV at the moment). I put in 8 hours of stakeout time for the Yellow-footed Gull in Amarillo yesterday and today and it paid off…