plover
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Any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings;
Closely related to the sandpipers (synset 102025995)is a type of: limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuariessubtypes:- charadrius melodus, piping plover - small plover of eastern North America
- charadrius vociferus, kildeer, killdeer, killdeer plover - American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry
- charadrius morinellus, dotrel, dotterel, eudromias morinellus - rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia
- golden plover - plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots
- green plover, lapwing, peewit, pewit - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
- turnstone - migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over stones in searching for food
belongs to: charadriidae, family charadriidae - plover family
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