Semipalmated Plover

The semipalmated plover is a small plover. The genus name "Charadrius" is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek "kharadrios" a bird found in ravines and river valleys. The specific " semipalmatus " is Latin and comes from "semi", "half" and "palma", "palm". Like the English name, this refers to its only partly webbed feet.