Wilson’s Plover Images

Wilson’s Plover Images, Facts and Information:

Anarhynchus wilsonia used to be Charadrius wilsonia

• Wilson’s Plovers are medium sized shorebirds with  long legs, stout bills, short necks, brown backs and one thick black or brown chest band.
• Wilson’s Plover habitat is ocean beaches from the southeast to Texas. Some are year round residents and others migrate.
• The diet of Wilson’s Plovers includes crustaceans, including fiddler crabs, worms and insects.
• Wilson’s Plovers lay 2 to 3 eggs which hatch in 23 to 25 days. Both sexes incubate.
• A group of plovers is called a “ponderance”, “deceit”, “congregation”, “brace” or a “wing” of plovers.
• Wilson’s Plovers are also called “Thick-billed Plovers”
• Wilson’s Plovers can live up to 6 years or more.

I hope you enjoy viewing my Wilson’s Plover photos.