Interpreters and volunteers - called plover guardians - ensure safe viewing of these rare birds. From Wordnik.com. [CANOE Travel Features] Reference
The kind of plover which appears as if mounted on stilts. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
For ever and a day, the name of these birds was "plover", pronounced to rhyme with "lover.". From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The lapwing is a kind of plover, and is very swift of foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
The only kind of plover in the Forest is the green plover or lapwing, which were very numerous at one time in the wet greens. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account] Reference
The kind of plover, which appears as if mounted on stilts (Himantopus nigricollis), is here common in flocks of considerable size. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter VI] Reference
And the wail of the plover awakes on the mountain. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Oft scream'd the plover her wild notes and shrill. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Water-fowl, snipe, and red pie-like peewit or plover. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Piping plover and least tern both nest at Laudholm Beach. From Wordnik.com. [Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine] Reference
Stalking and photographing a mountain plover along the way. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Their flight much resembles that of golden plover, only sharper. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
All this place was absolutely covered with flocks of screaming plover. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
Painted partridges were seen; and the eggs of a large bird like a plover?. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The plover, indeed, is still with us, but in numbers lessening every year. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Raise his legs, wings and his shoulders as a plover, and no sauce but salt. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
I had climbed into my saddle, and at that moment an unseen plover wailed through the mist. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Birds abound on Exmoor; snipe and woodcock, partridge and black-game, plover and wild-duck. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
'Twas really not worth Epops 'while to go and bury himself in the thicket like a plover when a-hatching. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
If I went out to try and shoot plover or whistlers with my little rifle, there was Bozie tagging after me. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
He whistled thrice like a golden plover, and on all sides dark forms showed themselves in response to his call. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Two bird species are unique to the shortgrass prairies east of the Rockies, the mountain plover and McCown's longspur. From Wordnik.com. [Great Plains-Palouse Dry Steppe Province (Bailey)] Reference
Work at Shinnecock East has to stop by Friday because of the arrival of the nesting season of the endangered piping plover. From Wordnik.com. [Hamptons Establish a Beachhead] Reference
A flight of plover, startled by the engine, go wheeling away in a silver streak to a spit of sand running out from the marsh. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
A low call came from a brooding curlew, a faint sigh from a plover, and the wild rasping cry of a lapwing greeted them overhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference
Wild ducks and geese and swan swam in the river, and grouse and wild turkeys and quail and plover roamed the forests and uplands. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
The notes of a plover, or the bleating of a lamb, or the lowing of a cow, might be heard making the quietness all the more impressive. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
They could hear the curlew whistling and the plover calling amid that monotonous plash of the waves that murmured all around the coast. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
Grey plover and curlew scud across the road, a sign of hard weather, and near the rarer homesteads towers the hawk, looking for his prey. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Among the different kinds of birds captured in this way, mocking-birds, blue-birds, robins, meadow larks, quail, and plover were the most numerous. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Their quarrelsome jargon reaches me as I cautiously raise my head over the dunes, for often a band of plover is feeding at dawn out on the mud, close enough for a shot. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
Draw-nets are those used by fen-men and others at night for taking lark, snipe, plover, etc, by dragging a long net of a certain construction over the fields and swamps. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
He sailed by way of Iceland, where "fresh fish and dainty fowl, partridges, curlew, plover, teale, and goose" much refreshed the already discontented crews, and the hot baths of. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Bustards, plover and many other migratory birds appear only in winter, while for hunters of big game, tigers, leopards, horned deer and wild boar are found in certain localities. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
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