Wanderer: Aug 24, 2024 on the Schoodic Peninsula.
Miscellany: Piping Plover is an interesting bird with breeding populations on favored beaches from North Carolina to the Canadian Maritimes, in a few places on the Great Lakes, and in the Northern Great Plains, this latter group belonging to a different subspecies. There are thought to be about 4000 pairs overall. Most of these birds winter along the coast in the southeastern US from North Carolina to south Texas.
The coast of eastern Maine and perhaps especially the areas covered by MDIBirds are characterized by rocky shorelines, not the broad sandy beach habitat so favored by Piping Plover, which explains its rarity in our area but leaves unanswered the question of where our bird came from.
Last Updated: September 27th, 2024