Black-bellied Plovers winter on sandy beaches and estuarine mud flats around the world.
Category Archives: Shorebirds
Black-bellied Plover with a catch, Fort De Soto Park_93E6597
Part of their diet, on their wintering grounds, Black-bellied Plovers feed on polychaete worms, bivalves, and crustaceans. On their breeding grounds, they primarily eat insects.
Black-bellied Plover, Fort De Soto_93E6877
Also known as the Grey Plover, this bird is a medium size plover which forages for food on beaches and tidal flats.
Willet, Fort De Soto_93E6878
It is a relatively large and robust sandpiper. The willet is an inelegant and heavily built shorebird with a structure similar to that of the common redshank but being larger in size than the greater yellowlegs while resembling a godwit in flight
Probing into the mud.