Piping Plover
Cathy Miller photographed these Piping Plovers (and Semipalmated Plover) on 29 Nov 2008 at Folly Beach, South Carolina.
Sidney Maddock provided banding history on these birds. Both of these Piping Plovers have wintered at Stono Inlet for several years. Usually, they are at Bird Key Stono, but sometimes they can be seen at the south end of Folly, or with the first, the north end of Kiawah.
-,X:O,RB -- which is missing a yellow/black split band -- is from the Great Plains of Canada, SK, Chaplin Lake, born in 2005.
-,gO:-,RX is from the Great Lakes, Michigan, Cross Village, born in 2001 and banded in 2003.
left: Semipalmated Plover, right: Piping Plover