The pale edges to the upperpart feathers indicate that this is a juvenile. This bird was banded on North Manitou Island in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan.

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Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)

Piping Plover

Montrose Beach, Cook County, 8/17/03
Photograph by Robert Hughes

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