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Posted by Vince Lucas on 22:02:00 12/27/08
Last week, I guided two different British couples to Tigertail Beach on Marco Island in Collier County. On each occasion, I found a different banded Piping Plover among the many shorebirds present. I sent in the info to the authorities and just got back a reply stating that both birds were banded in Vermillion (yes, with 2 "l's"), South Dakota. One bird was banded as an adult in 2007 and the other was banded as a chick in 2005. Both were banded by researchers from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Nice to find out this info. BTW, there are great numbers of shorebirds at Tigertail Beach at this time. Each day out there over the last week has yielded 15-20 Snowy Plovers, 20-25 Piping Plovers, 50+ Wilson's Plovers as well as many Semipalmated & Black-bellied Plovers. Red Knot, Dunlin, Short-billed Dowitcher, Least & Western Sandpipers, Sanderling, Willet, Ruddy Turnstone and Lesser Yellowlegs round-out the other shorebirds. A few Northern Gannets and Magnificent Frigatebirds have been seen on the Gulf side of the beach. Peregrine Falcon, Red-breasted Merganer, American White Pelican, white morph Reddish Egret, Red-breasted Merganser and herring Gull have also been seen along with other "common" species. There are Burrowing Owls present just outside Tigertail Beach in the residential neighborhood.
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