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Definition of plover in English: plovernounPlural plovers ˈplʌvə 1A short-billed gregarious wading bird, typically found by water but sometimes frequenting grassland, tundra, and mountains. Family Charadriidae (the plover family): several genera and numerous species, especially the ringed plovers (Charadrius), grey and golden plovers (Pluvialis), and lapwings (Vanellus) Example sentencesExamples - Sandpipers and plovers of many species will pass through or decide to stay in the ponds and wetlands that dot central and southern Iraq.
- The Semipalmated Plover is a small plover with a short bill and yellow-orange legs.
- When returning to Breydon shortly after high water, the great flights of plovers often arrive at a considerable height.
- Like other plovers, Black-bellied plovers are visual feeders, but they may also probe for hidden prey.
- Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage.
- The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
- Along the perimeter I saw an unusual number of crested larks and a few red-wattled plovers in a recently flooded field.
- Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south.
- These plovers are found mostly on the outer coast.
- In Scotland, gamekeepers blame the buzzard, a protected bird, for the deaths of thousands of partridges, pheasants, and waders such as curlews and plovers.
- When we arrived, it was past the peak of the fall shorebird migration, but there were still hundreds of sandpipers and plovers resting and feeding.
- In the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy, you'll see large roosts of shorebirds - plovers, yellowlegs, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes - at high tide.
- However, to keep these teeth pearly white, the crocodiles employ the services of spur winged plovers that pick the pieces of meat left between the crocodile's teeth after a large meal.
- At the second pond I found a magpie hopping around near the water, some red-wattled plovers in the field, and a few Dead Sea Sparrows carrying nesting material.
- Beginning in 1988, to the chagrin of many locals, the refuge closed down two and a half miles of prime beach during the spring and summer to protect the plovers during their breeding season.
- But managing the moors for the grouse also preserves them for the plovers and Merlin.
- 1.1 Used in names of birds similar to the plover in other families, e.g. Egyptian plover.
Example sentencesExamples - There were a dozen black-winged stilts, two spur-winged plovers, a common sandpiper and my new life bird, a great snipe.
- Birds such as the sanderling, white-fronted plover and many others are dependent on these creatures as well as being themselves dependent on the biome.
- It already attracts birds - paradise and mallard ducks, spur-winged plovers and welcome swallows.
- Such behavior is unique among the Pluvialis plovers and unusual among shore - birds in general.
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, based on Latin pluvia 'rain'. Rhymes cover, Glover, hardcover, lover, undercover Definition of plover in US English: plovernoun A short-billed gregarious wading bird, typically found by water but sometimes frequenting grassland, tundra, and mountains. Family Charadriidae (the plover family): several genera and numerous species, especially the ringed plovers (Charadrius), golden plovers (Pluvialis), and lapwings (Vanellus) Example sentencesExamples - However, to keep these teeth pearly white, the crocodiles employ the services of spur winged plovers that pick the pieces of meat left between the crocodile's teeth after a large meal.
- In the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy, you'll see large roosts of shorebirds - plovers, yellowlegs, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes - at high tide.
- Beginning in 1988, to the chagrin of many locals, the refuge closed down two and a half miles of prime beach during the spring and summer to protect the plovers during their breeding season.
- Like other plovers, Black-bellied plovers are visual feeders, but they may also probe for hidden prey.
- Sandpipers and plovers of many species will pass through or decide to stay in the ponds and wetlands that dot central and southern Iraq.
- The Semipalmated Plover is a small plover with a short bill and yellow-orange legs.
- Along the perimeter I saw an unusual number of crested larks and a few red-wattled plovers in a recently flooded field.
- In Scotland, gamekeepers blame the buzzard, a protected bird, for the deaths of thousands of partridges, pheasants, and waders such as curlews and plovers.
- When returning to Breydon shortly after high water, the great flights of plovers often arrive at a considerable height.
- Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south.
- Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage.
- The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
- When we arrived, it was past the peak of the fall shorebird migration, but there were still hundreds of sandpipers and plovers resting and feeding.
- But managing the moors for the grouse also preserves them for the plovers and Merlin.
- These plovers are found mostly on the outer coast.
- At the second pond I found a magpie hopping around near the water, some red-wattled plovers in the field, and a few Dead Sea Sparrows carrying nesting material.
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, based on Latin pluvia ‘rain’. |