plovers in English

noun
1
a short-billed gregarious wading bird, typically found by water but sometimes frequenting grassland, tundra, and mountains.
In the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy, you'll see large roosts of shorebirds - plovers , yellowlegs, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes - at high tide.

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1. Studies document canine harassment of plovers.

2. As we pan our telescope, we spot ringed plovers too.

3. The water drives out insects from the parched ground, which are snapped up by plovers.

4. 12 On the shingle beach, where the burnet rose grows, ringed plovers incubate eggs in shallow scrapes.

5. 27 Ringed Plovers can also exploit industrial sites and, for example,[www.Sentencedict.com] breed in the vicinity of the power station at Southwick.

6. JASPER LYLE HARRIET WARD They are like water when one is Athirst, like plovers' eggs in March, like cigars when one is out in the autumn

7. There are two subspecies of piping plovers: the eastern population is known as Charadrius melodus melodus and the mid-west population is known as C. m. circumcinctus.

8. ‘Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers, stilts, Avocets, plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes.’

9. ‘The waders, Curlews, plovers and lapwing were there long before the hedgehogs were introduced.’ ‘The large numbers of birds in the area, including nationally important numbers of golden plover, curlew, dunlin, merlin and twite, make it a Site of Special Scientific Interest.’

10. 18 hours ago · Leslie Borns, steward of the Montrose Beach Dunes, welcomed the Alderman’s backing of the proposal she put to the Park District months ago, and has been anxiously awaiting a decision on it as the plovers’ likely return grows closer