plovers

Did they learn the habit when their so-called plovers 'eggs became a dainty?

John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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 Jamie Rappaport Clark 2010

All other types of bird could be eaten, including songbirds, doves, plovers, fowl, and ducks.

Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

Piping plovers, difficult to identify gulls which were herrings? glaucous? great black-backed? and arctic terns were always there.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

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.

David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Yellowstone Wildfires, Sea Levels and Shorebirds, and Fracking Accounting David Kroodsma 2011

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 Jamie Rappaport Clark 2010

While the aging mother can identify "black-bellied plovers," her children are connoisseurs of Yoplait.

Lost in a World Without Roots Pico Iyer 2011

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 Jamie Rappaport Clark 2010

The robins nest, and in the springtime the plovers come from the north.

THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

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.

David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Yellowstone Wildfires, Sea Levels and Shorebirds, and Fracking Accounting David Kroodsma 2011