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All: Opps! Forgot to mention the most often used field mark (in recent years) - the extension of the lower edge of the dark lores to the gape in CRPL and above the gape in SEPL. This differnece is quite obvious in juvenile and most late-fall adults. But in some adult SEPL in relatively unworn breeding plunmage, the dark lores seem to extend down to the gape, although often with some measy mixture of darker and lighter feathers there. Althoughy the dark lowes accordingly seem narrower and often "pinched" near the gape in SEPL, some CRPL can have similarly narrow, but not "pinched" lores (except close to the eye in some). The NS plover has relatively narrow lores (although similar to some images of CRPL), but they do not in any way sweep up above the gape. Cheers, Ian McLaren
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