Black-bellied Plover; Silver Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) | Affiliated Manuscripts | Further Data

Occurrence in Amherst & Connecticut Valley, Mass.

C19

No local record in Clark 1887; 1906. Emmons 1833 recorded the bird as present in the region.

C20

Causal transient: ten records, four vernal, six autumnal

March - November

C21

Resident; most abundant from late August through November

January - December

Habitat

tundra, beaches, mudflats, coastal and inland marshes, lakeshores, plowed fields

Nest Materials

scrape of pebbles and fragments of plant matter

21st Century Conservation Notes

Least concern*