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Plover :: Plover (n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridae, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsae. They are prized as game birds..

Killdeer :: Killdeer (n.) A small American plover (Aegialitis vocifera).

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

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

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

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

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

Dulwilly :: Dulwilly (n.) The ring plover.

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

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

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

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

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

Lapwing :: Lapwing (n.) A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the plover's eggs of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea..

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

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..

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 Cock :: Sea cock () The black-bellied plover.

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

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

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