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The Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius), also known as the crocodile bird, is a wader, the only member of the genus Pluvianus. It occurs in a band across Sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east and south to parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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 ...
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.
In flight with wing spurs clearly visible. The masked lapwing is the largest representative of the family Charadriidae.It measures from 30 to 37 cm (12 to 15 in) in length and has a wingspan of 75–85 cm (30–33 in), and has a conspicuous yellow spur on the carpal joint of each wing.
Piping plovers are a species of small shore birds able to camouflage themselves in the sand. They weigh 1.5 to 2.25 ounces with a height of just up to 7 inches.
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.
Western snowy plovers are active foragers and visual predators. Their diet includes invertebrates, insects and crustaceans. Typical prey items are juvenile mole crabs, brine fly larvae, beetles, flies, snails, clams, polychaete worms, and amphipods. [12] Plovers use the "stop and run" method to spot prey and capture it.
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.