Black-bellied Plover Photos

Photography by Terry Sohl

My Favorite: I have two bad photos of Black-bellied Plovers in South Dakota! Good enough to be able to recognize the species, but bad enough that I'm not going to make them part of my website! While I often do see American Golden Plovers in migration in South Dakota, I haven't seen Black-bellied Plovers as much, and when I have, it typically hasn't been close enough for photos. Thus, all of the photos below are of an encounter I had with a small group of non-breeding plumaged Black-bellied Plovers on the beach at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama in February of 2008.

Black-bellied Plover - Pluvialis squatarola


Black-bellied Plover 1	Black-bellied Plover 2	Black-bellied Plover 3	Black-bellied Plover 4
February 13th, 2008	February 13th, 2008	February 13th, 2008	February 13th, 2008
Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama
Winter-plumaged bird on beach	Winter-plumaged bird on beach with bit of flotsam	Winter-plumaged bird on beach with bit of flotsam	Non-breeding plumaged bird wading in shallow water on beach

Black-bellied Plover 5	Black-bellied Plover 6	Black-bellied Plover 7	Black-bellied Plover 8
February 13th, 2008	February 13th, 2008	February 13th, 2008	February 13th, 2008
Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama
Non-breeding plumaged plover in flight	Winter-plumaged bird on beach	Winter-plumaged bird running through surf	Winter-plumaged bird standing in shallow water on beach

Black-bellied Plover 9	Black-bellied Plover 10
February 13th, 2008	February 13th, 2008
Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama
Non-breeding plumaged plover in flight	Bird running on the beach

Click here for the species description page for the Black-bellied Plover.

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