plover
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It’s not too late to save the whooping crane, the red-cockaded woodpecker, the piping plover or any of the other 86 birds on the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Four UK shorebirds - the grey plover, dunlin, turnstone and curlew sandpiper - are becoming more endangered on the red list.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2024
The California least tern, an endangered species, and the western snowy plover, a threatened species, nest near the mouth of the river and rely on it to survive.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023
This guy birds solely by ear, this guy in the Rockaways who took it upon himself just as a volunteer to save the piping plover out in the Rockaways.
From Salon • Jul. 19, 2023
She had never beheld a plover so closely and now understood why Kapugen had called them “the spirit of the birds.”
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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