19 July 2011

I was able to photograph the color bands on both Piping Plovers at Lorain
Impoundment on July 15.  These birds were reported to the OhioBirds listserv
between 13 and 16 July.

I sent the band combinations to the Cuthbert lab at the University of
Minnesota, and received this response in regard to the origin of the birds:

*Bird 1 (the bird with no leg flag, an orange band, and a light green band)*

Dave,

I can't be as specific for this report since the band combination is one
used for chicks. We reuse these combinations in subsequent years. Breeding
adults, like the other plover you reported, are given unique combinations of
colors that individually identify them for life. This plover was hatched in
07, 09 or 10 at Gulliver, MI in the upper peninsula or possibly (though
probably not as likely) at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, WI in 2006.

Thanks again for these reports. We don't often get reports of plovers in
migration so these are of great interest.

Alice


*Bird 2 (the bird with 2 yellow color bands, an orange band, and an orange
leg flag)*

Dave,

Thanks for your reports of two Great Lakes Piping Plovers. This male plover
was hatched in 2007 near Escanaba, MI and banded in 2009 at Port Inland, MI
along US-2 in the Upper Peninsula.

Alice Van Zoeren




Dave Slager
Graduate Research Associate
Terrestrial Wildlife Ecology Lab
School of Environment and Natural Resources
The Ohio State University
210 Kottman Hall, 2021 Coffey Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1085
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