Black-bellied Plover
Pluvialis squatarola
Family: Plovers and lapwings
Black-bellied Plover is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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It is less gregarious than the other Pluvialis species, not forming dense feeding flocks, instead feeding widely dispersed over beaches, with birds well spaced apart.
They nest on the ground in a dry open tundra with good visibility; the nest is a shallow gravel scrape.
Four eggs are laid in early June, with an incubation period of 26–27 days; the chicks fledge when 35–45 days old.