Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 1825 (0, 4)
Photo © By Eleanor Briccetti - Semipalmated Plover, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42628122
STATUS
Nearctic. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
Key feature is the gape-line surrounded by white, also, slightly smaller size than its congeners, the Little Ringed and Ringed Plovers.
BBRC RECORDS
1). 1978 Isles of Scilly Porth Killier and Periglis, St Agnes, juvenile, 9th October to 9th November, photo.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 72: 520; P. J. Grant, Isles of Scilly Bird Report 1978: 50-52; P. A. Dukes, British Birds 73: 458-464, plates 227-230; BOURC (1980), Ibis 122: 564; Flood, Hudson & Thomas, 2007: plate 47).
2.0). 1997 Devon Dawlish Warren, first-summer, mid-April to 21st September, photo.
(I. Lakin & K. Rylands, Birding World 10 (6): 212-216, plates 1-4; Birding World 10 (7): 247, photo; Birding World 10 (12): 470, photo; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 91: 472).
2.1). 1998 Devon Dawlish Warren, adult, 31st March to 10th May, photo; presumed returning individual of 1997.
(Birding World 11 (4): 129, photo; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 92: 570).
3). 2012 Outer Hebrides South Glendale, South Uist, juvenile, 7th to 11th September, photo.
(Birding World 25 (9): 359, photo; J. B. Kemp, Scottish Birds 32: 366-368, plates 329-331; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 106: 591, plates 340 & 341).
4.0). 2013 Hampshire Black Point, Hayling Island, first-winter, 17th to 29th October, photo; also in Sussex.
(British Birds 106: plate 469; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 596, plate 287; Clark, 2022, photo).
4.1). 2013 Sussex Pilsey Sands, Chichester Harbour, first-winter, 18th to 21st October; photo; same as Hampshire.
(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 596)
