plover
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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
The barges were filled and covered with sediment to create a new island for birds including endangered dunlin, curlew, ringed plover and lapwing.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026
Conservation and management of the least Bell’s vireo, California least tern, and western snowy plover have resulted in significant increases to on-base populations of these species, according to the agency.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2025
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
Once Acorn put up a plover, which flew round them, calling shrilly, until at length they crossed a bank and left it behind.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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The Turtle of Oman
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