“The mystique of birding” — a leg band found at Milford Point reveals the oldest known Black-bellied Plover in the Western Hemisphere » Screen Shot milford point-short beach BBPL PM
This screen shot from Google Earth shows a direct line from Short Beach, on the left, where the plover was banded in 2009, to the lagoon at Milford Point, to the north and west. The distance is 1 mile.