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Dr. Smith and my plovers

10,000 Birds

At the same time as he was doing his study on Kumlein’s (Iceland) Gulls and Thayer’s Gulls Smith supposedly gathered data on both Common Ringed and Semipalmated Plover (which both nested in the area) and the hybridization of the two species. It is worthy of a much longer look than this one here.

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