When you travel over 6000 miles non stop, of course you want your own patch of grass. Actually, you deserve it.
This deserving avian wonder is the Pacific Golden Plover (or Hawai'ian Kolea)—a petite shorebird that is very common in Hawaii and who I first met on the island of Oahu.
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Very pretty unusual bird,, we don’t see these here in Virginia. or in Minnesota where I grew up!
My husband tells me that the plover is exquisite in its spring/summer “wardrobe.” He showed me a picture from him field guide (though it wasn’t a very good photo) and it looks quite different. I guess I have to go to Alaska to see it. (Hmmmm, trip in the future?)