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Plovers (/ˈplʌvər/ PLUV-ər, also US: /ˈploʊvər/ PLOH-vər) are
members of a
widely distributed group of
wading birds of
subfamily Charadriinae. The term...
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alert them to any danger. Like many
other species of
plovers,
adult piping plovers will
often feign a "broken wing display",
drawing attention...
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species of
plover. This
species is
similar to two
other golden plovers, the
American golden plover,
Pluvialis dominica, and
Pacific golden plover, Pluvialis...
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binomial name
Tringa squatarola. It is now
placed with
three other plovers in the
genus Pluvialis that was
introduced by the
French ornithologist...
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golden plovers,
European and Pacific. The
American golden plover is smaller,
slimmer and
relatively longer-legged than
European golden plover (Pluvialis...
- grams. The word
plover came from a
Latin word
pluvia which means "rain". In
medieval England some
migratory birds became known as
plovers because they returned...
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thought this bird
might be just a
variant of
common ringed plover.
Adult little ringed plovers have a grey-brown back and wings, a
white belly and a white...
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plover (Anarhynchus nivosus) is a
small s****bird
found in the Americas. It is a
member of the bird
family Charadriidae,
which includes the
plovers,...
- it was in
former times included in the
present species.
Juvenile ringed plovers are
duller than the
adults in colour, with an
often incomplete grey-brown...
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plover", "lapwing", and "dotterel" do not
correspond exactly to
current taxonomic models; thus,
several of the
Vanellinae are
often called plovers, and...