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  2. Birders have guarded optimism regarding the plight of piping ...

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    Plovers eat invertebrates and insects. “The midge population, because the lake is a lot healthier, the midge population has improved and has grown and those midges are a big part of their diet ...

  3. Plover - Wikipedia

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    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. The term "plover" applies to all the members of the family, [ 1 ] though only about half of them include it in their name.

  4. Semipalmated plover - Wikipedia

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    Semipalmated plovers forage for food on beaches, tidal flats and fields, usually by sight. They eat insects (such as the larvae of long-legged and beach flies, larvae of soldier flies and shore flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers and Ochtebius beetles), spiders, [6] crustaceans (such as isopods, decapods and copepods) [7] and worms (such as ...

  5. Greater sand plover - Wikipedia

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    Its food consists of insects, crustaceans and annelid worms, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups. Its flight call is a soft trill. The greater sand plover is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds applies.

  6. Mountain plover - Wikipedia

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    The mountain plover (Anarhynchus montanus) is a medium-sized ground bird in the plover family (Charadriidae). It is misnamed, as it lives on level land. It is misnamed, as it lives on level land. Unlike most plovers, it is usually not found near bodies of water or even on wet soil; it prefers dry habitat with short grass (usually due to grazing ...

  7. Piping plover - Wikipedia

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    The piping plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America. The adult has yellow-orange-red legs, a black band across the forehead from eye to eye, and a black stripe running along the breast line.

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    Some may find that idea revolting, a belief often, if unknowingly, steeped in colonialism and the notion that eating insects is "uncivilized." But Borgerson, an anthropologist at Montclair State ...

  9. Killdeer - Wikipedia

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    The killdeer is a large plover, with adults ranging in length from 20 to 28 cm (7.9 to 11.0 in), having a wingspan between 59 and 63 cm (23 and 25 in), and usually being between 72 and 121 g (2.5 and 4.3 oz) in weight. [3]

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