Snowy Plover

Even more confiding than the Piping Plover, this western relative follows the same scheme of life.

While walking on the beach, Florence Bailey says, bits of sand would take legs ahead of her, the brown forms having been entirely overlooked. When she saw them before they got up and stopped to talk, the confiding little fellows flatteringly sat still or went on fixing their feathers, looking very comfortable in the warm sand. When they ran it was in a comical crouching way as tho they knew their backs were sand color and trying to hide their black legs and plump white bodies. They are exceptionately quiet birds except when the vicinity of the nest is invaded.