> During the bus tour, someone spotted what seemed like a Piping Plover in the mud flats. The bus stopped, and a man with binoculars confirmed that it was, in fact, a Piping Plover. This would have been interesting, since the Piping Plover is an endangered bird that nests on Chinocteague. But it was not a Piping Plover, as Leen later confirmed with the assistance of a very close-up digital photo wintermute was able to take with his camera.
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> The verdict? It was a Semi-Palmated Plover. Now you know.
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> S "just reporting what he's told" am

Just in case you were wondering , the picture in question is linked to below. It's not as sharp as I'd like, due to the fact that it's a tiny crop from the centre of an extreme-zoom shot, but there you go