plover

Example Sentences

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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

Off-leash dogs are putting at risk the survival of the endangered California least tern and threatened western snowy plover at their habitat at the Santa Ana River mouth, experts say.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 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

First there had been an owl talking about plover, and then there was no owl.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White