(1) The Semipalmated Plover is a small plover with a short bill and yellow-orange legs.(2) The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?(3) When we arrived, it was past the peak of the fall shorebird migration, but there were still hundreds of sandpipers and plovers resting and feeding.(4) When returning to Breydon shortly after high water, the great flights of plovers often arrive at a considerable height.(5) These plovers are found mostly on the outer coast.(6) Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south.(7) In the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy, you'll see large roosts of shorebirds - plovers , yellowlegs, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes - at high tide.(8) In Scotland, gamekeepers blame the buzzard, a protected bird, for the deaths of thousands of partridges, pheasants, and waders such as curlews and plovers .(9) However, to keep these teeth pearly white, the crocodiles employ the services of spur winged plovers that pick the pieces of meat left between the crocodile's teeth after a large meal.(10) Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers , research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage.(11) Like other plovers, Black-bellied plovers are visual feeders, but they may also probe for hidden prey.(12) Beginning in 1988, to the chagrin of many locals, the refuge closed down two and a half miles of prime beach during the spring and summer to protect the plovers during their breeding season.(13) At the second pond I found a magpie hopping around near the water, some red-wattled plovers in the field, and a few Dead Sea Sparrows carrying nesting material.(14) Along the perimeter I saw an unusual number of crested larks and a few red-wattled plovers in a recently flooded field.(15) But managing the moors for the grouse also preserves them for the plovers and Merlin.(16) Sandpipers and plovers of many species will pass through or decide to stay in the ponds and wetlands that dot central and southern Iraq.
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