I received an email back from Alice Van Zoeren, of the Great Lakes Piping
Plover Conservation Team regarding the Piping Plover from the Findlay
Reservoirs.  Based on a picture taken in less-than-ideal conditions, she
was able to tell us this much:

This photo is good enough to know something about this plover. To know
exactly which plover it is would take a better photo than anyone is likely
to have gotten on a cloudy evening. We'd have to be able to tell what color
dot is on the orange band high on the left leg, or read a three-digit
number on the light blue band low on the left leg. I don't think it would
have been possible even if you knew to look for it.

What I can say is that this plover is from the Great Lakes population. It
looks like a male. It hatched on North Manitou Island in Sleeping Bear
Dunes National Lakeshore in either 2009, 2012 or 2013. There were two males
with this combination that were in competition for territory on North
Manitou last summer, but neither found a mate. Once this plover does find a
mate and put in a nest we will trap it and re-band it with an individually
unique pattern of band colors so if you see it again we'd be able to tell
exactly which plover it is.

For those who don't know, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is in the
lower peninsula of Michigan, not far from Traverse City, along Lake
Michigan.

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