A black-bellied plover in breeding plumage studies the surface of the sand for signs of a meal below. Image taken at Pillar Point Harbor on ...

A five-frame series of this black-bellied plover pulling a segmented worm from the exposed sand of Pillar Point Harbor on Half Moon Bay. I...

Two shots of a very friendly (or more accurately, tolerant) black-bellied plover. This is either a female in her summer colors or a male in ...

A black-bellied plover, in the middle of transitioning to its summer plumage, along the edge of the water at Pillar Point Harbor. Updated ca...

A black-bellied plover that is almost to its full breeding plumage. They are such stunning birds in their summer patterns, and it's a pl...

Two more shots of this very friendly black-bellied plover at Pillar Point Harbor on Half Moon Bay. As the sun was dropping lower in the sky...

I took so many shots of this individual plover as we spent over an hour together on the beach at Pillar Point Harbor last month, and I have ...

I spent over an hour with this single black-bellied plover as it combed the shoreline looking for a late meal. We were along the edge of th...

A black-bellied plover hunting for worms in the sand at Pillar Point Harbor on Half Moon Bay. There was surprisingly little in the way of bi...

These plovers are always surprisingly large to me, perhaps since I've most often seen the much smaller snowy and semipalmated plovers. ...