Semipalmated Plover

In breeding plumage, adult has brown upperparts and white underparts with a white collar and a single black breast band. Forehead is white bordered by a black forecrown and sides of head. Thin eye ring, base of otherwise black bill, and legs and feet are yelowish to orange. In non-breeding pumage, black forecown and breast band fade to greyish brown. Sexes are similar, but breeding females have brown feathers in their black forecrown, breast band and side of head. Females also have a smaller orange base to their bill. In non-breeding plumage, males often have darker breast bands and forecrowns than females. Juvenile similar to non-breeding adult, but lack the orange bill base and have buff fringed feathers on their backs, giving a scalloped appearence.