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plover

DEFINITIONS OF: plover

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n any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers

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Charadrius melodus, piping plover
small plover of eastern North America
Charadrius vociferus, kildeer, killdeer, killdeer plover
American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry
Charadrius morinellus, Eudromias morinellus, dotrel, dotterel
rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia
golden plover
plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots
green plover, lapwing, peewit, pewit
large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
turnstone
migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over stones in searching for food
Arenaria interpres, ruddy turnstone
common Arctic turnstone that winters in South America and Australia
Arenaria-Melanocephala, black turnstone
common turnstone of the Pacific coast of North America
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limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird
any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
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