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
Four UK shorebirds - the grey plover, dunlin, turnstone and curlew sandpiper - are becoming more endangered on the red list.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2024
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
The plover was incredibly tame, perhaps because he lived in the most barren parts of the world where there were no people, perhaps because he was lonely.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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