When Angus posted his query about this species I was immediately reminded of
two recent conversations with Tom Burke and Doug Futuyma. Despite living more
than an hour apart in the quite different realms of Westchester and Suffolk
Counties, Tom and Gale probably share the most similar birding
Could it be the mass erection of wind farms in the central Plains? Many of
these shorebirds including AGPL migrate up through the Plains in the spring.
With more and more wind farms and higher ones too in the Plains, could the
mortality of the breeding adults finally be showing up? I can
I wonder if those who regularly bird the dirt / farm fields of Orange County
black dirt region can weigh in on frequency/infrequency of sightings of golden
plovers over the last decade or so. I use to get there but only sporadically
and remember one really big day with about 25 birds but that
