For many shorebirds, Nantucket is their waystation on the long journey south. I've seen many of the visitors during my kayaking in Polpis Harbor to Pocomo, and on my hike with Libby Buck of the Nantucket Conservation Foundation at Eel Point yesterday.
While the oystercatchers and least terns do breed here, the semipalmated plovers, black terns and Laughing Gulls do not. There is a big nesting colony of laughing gulls on Monomoy and they are pushing into Nantucket. The semipalmated plovers breed in the artic.
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| Willet |
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| Young piping plover |
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| Semipalmated plover |
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| Piping Plover |
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| Black bellied plover |
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| Semipalmated Plover |
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| Oystercatcher |
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| Black Terns with Common Terns |
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| Black bellied plover |
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| Short billed dowitcher |
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