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and Hermes is 150 miles north-northwest of Lisianski, and Kure is 500 miles 
northwest of Lisianski. 
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Black-bellied Plover ( Squaterola squaterola ) 
Cur re nt St at us; Probably rare migrant. 
A pair was collected on the rocky east beach in March 1965 . They 
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remained together each time they were flushed, until Collected. They were 
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first observed while they were feeding among the exposed rocky outcroppings 
in shallow Water. On the same day a migrating flock of about 950 Golden 
Plovers Was resting on the beach about a quarter mile away. It is possible 
that the .Black-bellied Plovers had been led into the island in company with 
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the Golden PloVer flock. The POBSP has sight records from Midway Atoll and 
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Kure Atoll. 
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Range : Breeds on the arctic tundras from north-central Russia across 
northern Siberia, southern Novaya Zemlya, the Hew Siberian Islands, and 
Wrangel Island, to the shores of the Gulf of Anadyr, northern Alaska, north¬ 
western MacKenzie, and probably Banks, Victoria, Somerset, and Devon islands, 
south to southwestern Alaska, the Yukon River, north-central MacKenzie, King 
William Island, Melville Peninsula, Southampton Island, and southwestern 
Baffin Island. Non-breeding birds occur in summer in small numbers south 
to the British Isles, California, Panama, the Galapagos, Ecuador, the Gulf 
coast, southern Florida, the Bahamas, and Jamaica. Winters in the Old 
World from the British Isles, the southern coast of Europe, the Cape Verde 
Islands, northwestern India, Burma, southern China, southern Japan, and the 
Solomons, south to southern Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, the Seychelles, 
Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, Australia, and New Zealand; in the New World 
locally along the Pacific coast from southwestern British Columbia, California, 
