Piping Plover (Aegialitis meloda) | Affiliated Manuscripts | Further Data

Occurrence in Amherst & Connecticut Valley, Mass.

C19

Rare migrant

May

C20

Casual transient. —Bagg & Eliot

December

C21

Not observed by Fischer 1977; not recorded in the Amherst College Bird Survey 2008.

Habitat

sandy beaches, tidal flats

Nest Materials

scrape of pebbles, shell fragments

19th-20th Century Field Notes

PIPING PLOVER . Above , very pale ash ; beneath , white ; a black bar across the crown , and a black , incomplete ring about the neck , in the male ; a white band across the back of the neck . Length , under 7 inches . One instance . A small flock at Adams ' pond , May , 1884 . Mr . C . R . Kenfield .

—H.L. Clark, 1887

21st Century Conservation Notes

Near threatened*