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Plovers (/ˈplʌvər/ PLUV-ər, also US: /ˈploʊvər/ PLOH-vər) are members of a widely distributed group of wading birds of family Charadriidae. The term "plover"...

(2004) Despite Tuer's claim that plover's eggs were always eaten raw, Escoffier has several recipes for cooked plover eggs. Boiling them seems to have...

plover call Problems playing this file? See media help. The European golden plover's call is a monosyllabic, slightly descending, melancholic "tuu". Its flight...

will degrade piping plover breeding habitats in the Prairie Pothole Region. On the other hand, research suggests that piping plover's habitat in Nebraska...

The grey plover or black-bellied plover (Pluvialis squatarola) is a large plover breeding in Arctic regions. It is a long-distance migrant, with a nearly...

smaller little ringed plover in leg colour, the head pattern, and the lack of an obvious yellow eye-ring. The common ringed plover's breeding habitat is...

European turtle dove and European golden-plover, killed for sport in unsustainable and unnecessary numbers. "Plover's eggs" were an expensive delicacy in Victorian...

mountain plover's call consists of a low, variable whistle. Both sexes are of the same size. In appearance it is typical of Charadrius plovers, except...

coast, during the austral winter. Almost nothing is known about the puna plover's foraging techniques or diet, but the latter does include small crustaceans...

The Caspian plover (Anarhynchus asiaticus) is a wader in the plover family of birds. The specific asiaticus is Latin and means "Asian", although in binomials...

plover (Anarhynchus mongolus) is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The International Ornithologists' Union split the Tibetan sand plover from...

Wilson's plover (Anarhynchus wilsonia) is a small bird of the family Charadriidae. It was named after the Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson...

Plover is a village in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. A suburb of Stevens Point, it is part of the Stevens Point Micropolitan Statistical Area...

feeding, nesting, preening and roosting solely on the ground. The Kittlitz's Plover's calls include ‘pipip’, ‘towhit’, ‘tit-peep’, ‘trit-tritritritrit’, ‘perrup’...

The semipalmated plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) is a small plover. Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century...

Magellanic plover (Pluvianellus socialis) is a rare wader found only in southernmost South America. It was long placed in with the other plovers in the family...

Dual Plover (stylized dualpLOVER) is an Australian independent record label founded in Sydney in 1995 by Lucas Abela and Swerve Harris. Dual Plover's first...

The Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius), also known as the crocodile bird, is a wader, the only member of the genus Pluvianus. Formerly placed in the...

wet season pushing it to higher ground. Little is known about the pied plover’s behavior. Conflicting behavior has been reported. At Serra da Capivara...

Plover is a city in Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States. The population was 50 at the time of the 2020 census. Plover was platted in 1883, soon after...