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Semi-Palmated Plover, Plum Island. Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. This is a significant breeding site for all types of birds and wildlife including Osprey and the endangered Piping Plover. They do close the beaches in the breeding season.
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Semi-Palmated Plover, Georges Island. Boston Harbor.
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Bairds Sandpiper. This bird was among the many Sandpipers and was thought to be a Bairds.
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Bairds Sandpiper? Plum Island.
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Semi-Palmated Sandpipers, Plum Island
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Lesser-Yellowlegs, Plum Island
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Lesser-Yellowlegs, Plum Island.
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Least Sandpiper, Halibut Point, Mass.
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Killdeer, Georges Island, Boston Harbor.
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Great Egret, Plum Island.
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Great Egret
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Snowy Egret, Plum Island.
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Blue Heron, Great Meadows, National Refuge, Mass.
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Sanderling, Salisbury Beach, State reservation, Mass.