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  2. Pacific golden plover - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific golden plover was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the other plovers in the genus Charadrius and coined the binomial name Charadrius fulvus . [ 2 ]

  3. List of birds of Guam - Wikipedia

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    Pacific golden-plover. Order: Charadriiformes Family: Charadriidae. The family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings. They are small to medium-sized birds with compact bodies, short thick necks, and long, usually pointed, wings. They are found in open country worldwide, mostly in habitats near water.

  4. List of birds of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    The crab plover is related to the waders. It resembles a plover but with very long grey legs and a strong heavy black bill similar to a tern. It has black-and-white plumage, a long neck, partially webbed feet and a bill designed for eating crabs.

  5. Threatened plover numbers dip slightly as Oregon beaches ...

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    As plover nesting season began Friday in Oregon — leading to around 40 miles of beach being roped off — the birds remain a major success story even if their numbers have come down somewhat.

  6. Polynesian navigation - Wikipedia

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    The Polynesian triangle. Between about 3000 and 1000 BC speakers of Austronesian languages spread through the islands of Southeast Asia – most likely starting out from Taiwan, [9] as tribes whose natives were thought to have previously arrived from mainland South China about 8000 years ago – into the edges of western Micronesia and on into Melanesia, through the Philippines and Indonesia.

  7. List of birds of Arizona - Wikipedia

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    Black-bellied plover, Pluvialis squatarola; American golden-plover, Pluvialis dominica; Pacific golden-plover, Pluvialis fulva (A) Killdeer, Charadrius vociferus (n) Semipalmated plover, Charadrius semipalmatus; Lesser sand-plover, Charadrius mongolus (A) Mountain plover, Charadrius montanus (n) Snowy plover, Charadrius nivosus (n)

  8. List of birds of Tasmania - Wikipedia

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    The yellow wattlebird is Australia's largest honeyeater and an endemic Tasmanian species. A total of 383 species of bird have been recorded living in the wild on the island of Tasmania, nearby islands and islands in Bass Strait. Birds of Macquarie Island are not included in this list. Twelve species are endemic to the island of Tasmania, and most of these are common and widespread. However ...

  9. As native trees in the Pacific Northwest die off due to climate changes, the U.S. Forest Service, Portland, Oregon and citizen groups around Puget Sound are turning to a deceptively simple climate ...