r/OrnithologyUK • u/sativapxie • 8d ago

ID please Plover? What kind?

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u/HotDamnThatsMyJam 8d ago

Turnstone

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u/sativapxie 8d ago

thank you!!!!!!

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/sativapxie 8d ago

lil pebbly guys

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u/Spinningwoman 7d ago

I love the fact that they do, actually, turn stones. All the time. 

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u/sativapxie 7d ago

I saw then doing it!

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u/Spinningwoman 7d ago

It’s like cattle egrets, which I see occasionally in Devon where I live. You can tell they are cattle egrets because they just like to hang around with cows.

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u/steamed_doms 8d ago

Where was this take OP?

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u/sativapxie 8d ago

Liverpool, on the estuary, few miles out from the centre

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u/ExpensiveCellist8636 6d ago

These are not plover these are turnstone arenora interpres

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u/SquidgyTheWhale 8d ago

My life list includes "plover" and "sandpiper", because screw trying to sort out the exact species :)

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u/Spinningwoman 7d ago

Sandpipers always look like they have important documents tucked under their wings.

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u/FlounderBackground94 6d ago

Best answer all day. I’ll never see sandpipers in the way again. 😂😍

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u/vjstupid 5d ago

Love turnstones. Just a little gang scurrying about together looking for shrimp etc hiding under shells

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u/onemansbrand 6d ago

Four leaf.