Semipalmated Plover

Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 1825 (0, 4)

Photo © Phil Woollen - Hayling Island, Hampshire, 20 October 2013

STATUS

Nearctic. Monotypic.

OVERVIEW

Key feature is the gape-line surrounded by white, also, slightly smaller size than its congeners, the Little Ringed and Ringed Plovers.

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BBRC RECORDS

1). 1978 Isles of Scilly Porth Killier and Periglis, St Agnes, juvenile, 9th October to 9th November, photo.

(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 72: 520; P. J. Grant, Isles of Scilly Bird Report 1978: 50-52; P. A. Dukes, British Birds 73: 458-464, plates 227-230; BOURC (1980), Ibis 122: 564; Flood, Hudson & Thomas, 2007: plate 47).

2.0). 1997 Devon Dawlish Warren, first-summer, mid-April to 21st September, photo.

(I. Lakin & K. Rylands, Birding World 10 (6): 212-216, plates 1-4; Birding World 10 (7): 247, photo; Birding World 10 (12): 470, photo; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 91: 472).

2.1). 1998 Devon Dawlish Warren, adult, 31st March to 10th May, photo; presumed returning individual of 1997.

(Birding World 11 (4): 129, photo; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 92: 570).

3). 2012 Outer Hebrides South Glendale, South Uist, juvenile, 7th to 11th September, photo.

(Birding World 25 (9): 359, photo; J. B. Kemp, Scottish Birds 32: 366-368, plates 329-331; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 106: 591, plates 340 & 341).

4.0). 2013 Hampshire Black Point, Hayling Island, first-winter, 17th to 29th October, photo; also in Sussex.

(British Birds 106: plate 469; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 596, plate 287; Clark, 2022, photo).

4.1). 2013 Sussex Pilsey Sands, Chichester Harbour, first-winter, 18th to 21st October; photo; same as Hampshire.

(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 596)