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The plover comes back each spring to its breeding grounds, and so the wrong name mountain plover was given to the species. The mountain plover is 8 to 9.5 inches (20 to 24 centimetres) long and weighs about 3.7 ounces (100 grams). Its wingspread is 17.5 to 19.5 inches (44 to 50 centimetres).
Collared plover, Anarhynchus collaris (Vieillot, 1818) Mountain plover, Anarhynchus montanus (Townsend, JK, 1837) Puna plover, Anarhynchus alticola (Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1902) Two-banded plover, Anarhynchus falklandicus (Latham, 1790) Madagascar plover, Anarhynchus thoracicus (Richmond, 1896) Kittlitz's plover, Anarhynchus pecuarius (Temminck ...
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Little ringed plover Charadrius dubius Kentish plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus Lesser sand plover, Anarhynchus mongolus Snowy plover, on the beach at Vandenberg, CA. Plovers (/ ˈ p l ʌ v ər / PLUV-ər, [1] also US: / ˈ p l oʊ v ər / PLOH-vər) [2] are members of a widely distributed group of wading birds of family Charadriidae.
(SW) Semipalmated plover, Charadrius semipalmatus (winter range), Baja California and western Mexico coast (* SW) Killdeer, Charadrius vociferus Permanent–less common in summer: June and July (SW) Mountain plover, Charadrius montanus (winter range), southern Arizona border and southeast Arizona biome
The trend in recent years has been to rationalise the common names of the Charadriidae. For example, the large and very common Australian bird traditionally known as the 'spur-winged plover', is now the masked lapwing to avoid conflict with another bird with the same name; and the former 'sociable plover' is now the sociable lapwing.
The western snowy plover (Anarhynchus nivosus nivosus) is a small wader in the plover bird family. They are currently federally listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as Threatened. [ 2 ] Human activity, habitat loss and predation are the biggest contributors to population degradation.
The white-faced plover (Anarhynchus dealbatus) is a small shorebird predominantly found along the coastal shores of subtropical and tropical eastern Asia. [2] Initially described by British ornithologist Robert Swinhoe, the bird resembles the east Asian subspecies of the Kentish plover (Anarhynchus a. nihonensis) with which it has been much confused [3] and sometimes considered to be a subspecies.