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Late Migrating American Avocets in Utah

By Mia McPherson|November 12th, 2016|Categories: American Avocets, Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: adult, American Avocet, avocet, avocets, Definitive Basic Plumage, migrating, migration, non-breeding, nonbreeding plumage, Recurvirostra americana, Salt Lake Valley, shorebirds, stretching, water|

Most of the American Avocets have migrated away from northern Utah but most years we can have a few stragglers that haven't migrated by this time of the year

A Fort De Soto Snowy Plover

By Mia McPherson|April 16th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Snowy Plovers|Tags: Anarhynchus nivosus, beach, Gulf Coast, non-breeding, nonbreeding plumage, North America's smallest plover, plovers, sand, shorebirds, Snowy Plover|

This Gulf Coast Snowy Plover was photographed at Fort De Soto County Park in Florida and the park was the first place I had ever photographed this species.