Any one of several small American plovers having a dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover (Ægialitis semipalmata).
In neither case was the mate about as frequently occurs with the semipalmated sandpiper.
It seems to be the flight note of the species, corresponding to the cherk of the semipalmated sandpiper, and is also used by a bird on the ground calling to others in the air which alight with it, as such flight notes sometimes are.
On the New England coast the semipalmated sandpiper is a little later in migration than its colleague, the least sandpiper.
Although the turnstone and semipalmated plovers are reminiscent, they are quite distinct and not to be confused.
The downy young western sandpiper, when first hatched, is richly colored in warm, bright browns and buffs, quite different in appearance from the young semipalmated sandpiper.
With head down, not held up as is the case with its companions the semipalmated plovers, it runs along dabbling here and there irregularly, and occasionally probing with its bill in the sand.
Such birds are unmistakably different to anyone thoroughly familiar with the semipalmated sandpiper.
Undoubtedly it has been generally overlooked on account of its close resemblance to the semipalmated sandpiper, an abundant species which few collectors bother to shoot.
It has also a whinny, a little less clearly enunciated than that of the semipalmated but almost identical with the same.
Author's note: In natal down the young semipalmated most closely resembles the young western sandpiper, but it is generally paler, with less brown or rufous.
They often associate with other sandpipers, especially the greater yellow-legs, stilt, and semipalmated sandpipers.
Least sandpipers usually fly upward and onward if a deluge threatens; but they have a cousin, the semipalmated (half-webbed) sandpiper that swims well when the unexpected water suddenly lifts it off its feet.
The semipalmated sandpipers were in large flocks, and did not appear stationary.
On these knolls they fed with semipalmated sandpipers, pectoral sandpipers, and ruddy turnstones.
Next day in the same general area where winds had driven water on the sand, four semipalmatedsandpipers were feeding with dunlin.
They are very abundant on our seacoast in Fall, both in flocks composed entirely of their own kind, and also with Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers.
The nesting habits and eggs are precisely the same as those of the Semipalmated variety.
Their three or four eggs are practically not distinguishable from those of the Semipalmated Plover, but larger; size, 1.
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