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The migrating plovers along the shore this morning come from a wintry realm of the far north. Geographically, they come to us from Canada, but genetically they were among the first birds on earth, older in fact than gulls and loons. Little changed in millions of years, plovers bear a remarkable likeness to their ancestors of the Oligocene Epoch in Tertiary times. Their DNA has the imprint of each succeeding generation through the centuries. — Diary, autumn 2009
From the diary of beach walker George Thatcher, a retired banker, of Gulfport. E-mail: fishcrow@aol.com. A fourth volume of Thatcher’s work, “A Decade of Beach Walks,” is available in bookstores and gift shops and at the South Mississippi Store link to sunherald.com.
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