plover

Example Sentences

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It’s not too late to save the whooping crane, the red-cockaded woodpecker, the piping plover or any of the other 86 birds on the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

A major part of the scheme has been to "re-naturalise" the River Sherford, creating a wetland which now hosts lapwing, golden plover and common snipe.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2023

The California least tern, an endangered species, and the western snowy plover, a threatened species, nest near the mouth of the river and rely on it to survive.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

This guy birds solely by ear, this guy in the Rockaways who took it upon himself just as a volunteer to save the piping plover out in the Rockaways.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2023

Outside the castle, the starlings and green plover searched anxiously in the stiff grass.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White