[Mnbird] Distant shorebird at 180th St. marsh in Dakota County -- any guesses?

[Paul Lender]

Consensus is a Golden Plover.  Yasushi Nakagawa saw it yesterday also and
posted on eBird two impressive pictures considering the distance -- MUCH
clearer than mine.

-- Paul
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Paul Lender
University of Minnesota Dept. of Orthopedic Surgery
2450 Riverside Ave. South, Suite R200
Minneapolis  MN  55454

Office:  612-626-3721
lender at umn.edu



On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 10:21 AM Steve Weston <sweston2g at gmail.com> wrote:

> What you have found is one of the large plovers.  It appears to be a
> golden plover from the brown of the back and what looks like a smaller
> bill. What we see here would be the American Golden Plover. The American
> Golden Plovers come through earlier than the Black-bellied Plover and this
> would be about the right time to find them here. It would be too early for
> a Black-bellied Plover. It was ID'd at 180th St. as an American Golden
> Plover by Yasushi Nakagawa yesterday. One was also reported the day before
> by two birders at Lake Byllesby.
>
> Steve Weston
> On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN
> sweston2g at gmail.com
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 9:56 PM Paul Lender via Mnbird <
> mnbird at lists.mnbird.net> wrote:
>
>> A single bird on a muddy peninsula, about 800 feet from my
>> camera, effective 900mm (about 18x).  I apologize for the quality.  I don't
>> have a good size reference on this.  Someone suggested immature gull, but I
>> don't think so.  It almost looks like a plover.
>>
>> Thanks in advance...
>>
>> -- Paul Lender
>>
>> ======================================
>> Paul Lender
>> University of Minnesota Dept. of Orthopedic Surgery
>> 2450 Riverside Ave. South, Suite R200
>> Minneapolis  MN  55454
>>
>> Office:  612-626-3721
>> lender at umn.edu
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