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Crookbill :: Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right..

Troutbird :: Troutbird (n.) The American golden plover.

Pressiroster :: Pressiroster (n.) One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers..

Turnstone :: Turnstone (n.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake..

Stonerunner :: Stonerunner (n.) The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel..

Dotterel :: Dotterel (v. i.) A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, / Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler..

Sea Plover :: Sea plover () the black-bellied plover.

Sea Lark :: Sea lark () Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling..

Squatter :: Squaterole (n.) The black-bellied plover.

Frostbird :: Frostbird (n.) The golden plover.

Limicolae :: Limicolae (n. pl.) A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae..

Whew :: Whew (v. i.) To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover..

Papabote :: Papabote (n.) The upland plover.

Bullhead :: Bullhead (n.) The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead.

Beetlehead :: Beetlehead (n.) The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover..

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.

Greenshank :: Greenshank (n.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.

Pratincole :: Pratincole (n.) Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidae, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail..

Plover :: Plover (n.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers..

Stilted :: Stilt (n.) Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer..

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