This plover is identified as a juvenile Semipalmated Plover as follows:
- Single black breast-band
- Black patch around eye : in an adult this black patch extends across the forehead and above its bill; in a juvenile the extention is pale and may not be continuous.
- The bill in a juvenile can be all black, while in an adult it is orange and black.
The Semipalmated Plover is new to our life List, which now stands at 152.
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