<i>Pluvialis squatarola</i> Length: 11.5"
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The Black-bellied Plover is the most common seen plover
in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I have seen them in both breeding and non-breeding plumage here.
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Black-bellied Plovers forage for food on beaches and tidal flats.
They mainly eat small mollusks, polychaeteworm, crustaceans, and insects.
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