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

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

An unoiled, but injured, snowy plover that was captured also died.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2024

The plover birds that peck the scraps from crocodile teeth without getting eaten — that’s symbiosis, right?

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2023

Somewhere beyond, a plover called three or four times and was silent.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams