plover
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Many others, however, are happy about the pause, saying it will be good for the western snowy plover, a threatened sea bird species.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
Leonard said one of the main species the initiative aimed to protect was the ringed plover, a small coastal bird that nests directly on beaches and shingle.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
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
The plover birds that peck the scraps from crocodile teeth without getting eaten — that’s symbiosis, right?
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2023
Outside the castle, the starlings and green plover searched anxiously in the stiff grass.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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