Georgia
Coastal bird Ambassadors

Bird of concern in Georgia

Court and form pairs which take turns sitting on eggs but when hatched, chicks feed themselves. Parents main job is to protect chicks.

7-8” from beak to tail tip

Medium-sized plover with a brown back and head. They have a wide black breast band, thick black bill, light colored legs and a distinct white eye stripe on its head.

Can be consfused with

• Piping plovers

• Semipalmated plover

Wanders up and down surf zone or along the edge of the salt marshes probing the ground with its bill for invertebrates.