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- noun Plural form of
plover .
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Examples
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Did they learn the habit when their so-called plovers 'eggs became a dainty?
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They provide extensive coastal marine habitats important to recreational and commercial fish species, nesting habitat for sea turtles and terns, breeding and foraging sites for threatened piping plovers and other shorebirds and nesting and rookery habitats for waders and waterbirds affected by the spill.
Jamie Rappaport Clark: Six Months Later, a Unique Opportunity Emerges for Gulf Refuges
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All other types of bird could be eaten, including songbirds, doves, plovers, fowl, and ducks.
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Piping plovers, difficult to identify gulls which were herrings? glaucous? great black-backed? and arctic terns were always there.
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Significance: The risk of snowy plovers becoming extinct in Florida would increase by only two percent if sea level rises by three feet, and four percent if sea level rises by six feet.
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They provide extensive coastal marine habitats important to recreational and commercial fish species, nesting habitat for sea turtles and terns, breeding and foraging sites for threatened piping plovers and other shorebirds and nesting and rookery habitats for waders and waterbirds affected by the spill.
Jamie Rappaport Clark: Six Months Later, a Unique Opportunity Emerges for Gulf Refuges
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While the aging mother can identify "black-bellied plovers," her children are connoisseurs of Yoplait.
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They provide extensive coastal marine habitats important to recreational and commercial fish species, nesting habitat for sea turtles and terns, breeding and foraging sites for threatened piping plovers and other shorebirds and nesting and rookery habitats for waders and waterbirds affected by the spill.
Jamie Rappaport Clark: Six Months Later, a Unique Opportunity Emerges for Gulf Refuges
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The robins nest, and in the springtime the plovers come from the north.
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Significance: The risk of snowy plovers becoming extinct in Florida would increase by only two percent if sea level rises by three feet, and four percent if sea level rises by six feet.
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