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	MSN Encarta - Plover
		Plovers are distinguished from their similar shorebird relatives the sandpipers by their relatively short bills, which are enlarged and hardened at the tip.
		The killdeer is classified as Charadrius vociferus, the piping plover as Charadrius melodus, the semipalmated plover as Charadrius semipalmatus, the common ringed plover as Charadrius hiaticula, and the snowy plover as Charadrius alexandrinus.
		The fl-bellied plover is classified as Pluvialis squatarola, the American golden plover as Pluvialis dominica, the Pacific golden plover as Pluvialis fulva, and the Eurasian golden plover as Pluvialis apricaria.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562437/Plover.html (623 words)

	Plover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plovers are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae.
		Plovers are found throughout the world, and are characterised by relatively short bills.
		Food is insects, worms or other invetebrates, depending on habitat, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plover (127 words)

	Malaysian Plover
		CHARADRIIDAE (Lapwings and Plovers): 1; Charadrius javanicus Javan Plover; Charadrius ruficapillus Red-capped Plover; Charadrius peronii Malaysian Plover; Charadrius pallidus...
		Charadrius collaris Collared Plover 58 78 115 193 199.
		Sibley-Monroe ÃºplnÃ½ seznam 8:...naproti Plover; Charadrius ruficapillus ÄervenÃ½-opatÅenÃ½ Plover; Charadrius peronii Malaysian Plover; Charadrius javanicus Javan...
	www.specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/M/Malaysian_Plover.shtml (1526 words)

	Breeding seabirds in the Zeeland delta - Environmental Data Compendium
		The Kentish plover, little tern and common tern nest on bare, open land in the coastal zone.
		The Kentish plover is currently declining further; by contrast, the common tern is increasing.
		The Kentish plover is a pioneer species that nests on bare, open land along the coast, such as beach plains, saltmarshes rich in shellfish, and young dunes.
	www.mnp.nl /mnc/i-en-1235.html (573 words)

	The Indian Ocean's Crab-loving PLOVER
		The natural rarity of the crab plover appears to be a function of limited availability of suitable nest-sites in close proximity to an abundant supply of crabs, which dominate their diet.
		Colonial nesting, an aspect in the nesting behaviour of crab plover which has a strong bearing on their conservation, is much more characteristic of seabirds, be they on cliffs or on islands, than of waders.
		The evolutionary eccentricities of the unique crab plover are only just beginning to come to the surface but there remains a long way to go their survival for the next 35 million years can be assured.
	www.arabianwildlife.com /archive/vol3.1/plov.htm (2590 words)

	KPSS, Krajinski park Sečoveljske soline, Portorož, SlovenijaKPSS Sečovlje Salina Nature Park / Birds / Kentish Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kentish Plover is a bird of saltmarshes, sandy beaches and salt-pans, which it finds in Eurasia, America and North Africa.
		Kentish Plover is in its adult plumage easily recognisable by its fl legs (Great Ringed Plover's are orange, Little Ringed Plover's yellowish), incomplete fl breast-band (in the other two species it is broken),and by its light brown back of the head and crown, which is from its white forehead separated by fl bar.
		Kentish Plover is the smallest among the three, reaching just little over 10 cm in length.
	www.kpss.soline.si /park/birds/plover (426 words)

	Kentish Plover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, is a small wader in the plover bird family.
		It breeds in most subtropical and tropical parts of the world, from southern Europe to Japan and in Peru, Chile, the southern USA and the Caribbean.
		The Kentish Plover's upperparts are greyish brown and the underparts white in all plumages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kentish_Plover (345 words)

	Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus
		In 1977 a pair of Kentish remained at Salthouse for several weeks, but on each occasion that display commenced, the birds were attacked by extremely aggressive ringed plovers.
		During the past decade, over 80 Kentish plovers have been recorded in Norfolk and Suffolk; the majority in May. A few years ago, one visited Breydon in mid-December.
		Kentish plovers have never been known to nest in Norfolk, but in 1952 a pair attempted to breed on the Suffolk coast at Walberswick.
	www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird-guide/kentish-plover.htm (381 words)

	Ocean Wanderers Guide to Shorebirds - Snowy (Kentish) Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In all plumages, Snowy Plovers are readily separated from Ringed and Semipalmated Plovers by lack of an obvious dark breast band.
		It should be kept in mind however that juvenile Ringed/Semipalmated Plovers as well as some some basic plumaged adults show a broken band, although the remaining parts on the flanks are darker and broader than Snowy Plover.
		Basic-plumaged and juvenile Chestnut-banded Plovers are paler and greyer.
	www.oceanwanderers.com /SnowyPlover.html (350 words)

	Plovers under pressure: Kentish Plovers in southern Portugal (Research in Portugal) - research, Portugal, plants, ...
		Despite the fact that only a few coastal wetlands are left in Portugal, the number of breeding Kentish Plovers is still relatively high, with a population estimated at between 1,100 and 1,600 pairs, representing perhaps 4% of the European population.
		A further factor is natural change; because Kentish Plovers prefer bare surfaces for nesting, the spread of vegetation over former areas of open dune and marsh has gradually reduced the area available for breeding.
		Further details on this work and on the continuing studies on the Kentish Plover populations of the Alvor can be obtained from: portugal@arocha.org.
	en.arocha.org /ptresearch/index9.html (1083 words)

	KENTISH PLOVER modelling system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		KENTISH PLOVER is a model that contains the autecology of the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) and the interaction with its dynamic environment and has been developed in the GEONAMICA environment.
		The STRANDPLEVIER or KENTISH PLOVER is an individual based model (IBM), where it is possible to relate the occurrence of the Kentish plover to the spatial distribution of suitable nesting places in coincidence with human use of the Delta / Scheldt area and the occurrence of natural events like floodings and cold periods.
		the Kentish Plover Charadrinus as a breeding bird in The Netherlands during the 20th century.
	www.netcoast.nl /tools/rikz/kentish_plover.htm (272 words)

	Waders in the United Arab Emirates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The numbers of Kentish Plovers in the UAE fluctuate as migrants from the east of the Caspian Sea swell the local resident population.
		In the breeding plumage the rufous breastband of the Caspian Plover is not as extensive as that of the Mongolian Plover and is underlined by a fl band.
		The Kentish Plover has a fairly prominent white wing bar while the Little Stint has only a faint one; the Kentish Plover has a dark shoulder patch and the Little Stint is smaller.
	www.enhg.org /b/b01/01_07.htm (5464 words)

	Managing Predation to Increase Production of Wetland Birds
		The "Southern" Dunlin (Calidris alpina schinzii) and the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus), two species that breed mainly on grazed coastal meadows, have been studied on a population level in southwest Scania since 1981.
		On average, 80% of the nests were depredated (n= 303) while the corresponding figure for the Kentish plover was 68% (n=75).
		The Kentish plover is considered a critically endangered species in Sweden, with a total population of less than 30 birds.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/symabs/sweden.htm (454 words)

	Chalidris alexandrinus, Kentish Plover رهيز
		I photographed this chick of the kentish plover when I noticed the mother pretending to be injured by falling on her sides and running towards me then awy from me to distract me from seeing her youngs.
		There were then two youngs running towards the sea, when seprated I photographed one of them I then tried to catch him I ran following him but although he can not fly I ran for 10 minues but could not catch him becuase he does not run in staight lines.
		The young winner of the race plover was photographed on 22/03/2002.
	www.alsirhan.com /Birds/Kentish_Plover.htm (232 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Snowy Plover
		In North America, the Snowy Plover is found along the west coast from Washington to Baja California and along the Gulf coast from Florida to the Yucatan Peninsula.
		The Snowy Plover is also known by the British name "Kentish Plover" in many other parts of the world.
		Studies have found declines in Snowy Plover populations along the U.S. Gulf Coast, in the Great Plains and along the westernmost part of its U.S. range where there was an estimated 20% decline in breeding birds from the late 1970's to the late 1980's.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=192 (1113 words)

	Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus
		Palest of the ringed plover group with diagnostic fl legs.
		Although appearing annually as a passage migrant, the Kentish plover remains one of our rarest visitors.
		The late Dr Riviere's History of the Birds of Norfolk records three winter birds, all of which were shot.
	www.birdsofbritain.co.uk /bird%2Dguide/kentish-plover.htm (381 words)

	Species
		Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) - Abundant during the winter, feeding exclusively from the mudflats.
		Ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula) - Important in winter and also abundant during the migrations.
		Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) - Breeds in the salinas.Occurs in large number in the autumn migration.
	www.uc.pt /aves/estuary/waders1.html (94 words)

	Observations of the Graceful Warbler, Kentish Plover and Sander's Little Tern in Abu Dhabi. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The breeding season opened well this year for the Kentish Plover, with three nests being found against one in 1982.
		International accord was arrived at for the local preservation of the Kentish Plover, at the price of a few glances through the binoculars, and the driver duly worked all round the nest.
		Judging by the amount of overacting put on by numerous plovers, it would indicate that Abu Dhabi could be part of a large breeding ground.
	www.enhg.org /b/b20/20_02.htm (2460 words)

	Conference
		The Kentish Plover selects sites on which shingle takes up 79.5 % of the surface area, as opposed to 47.6 % in the case of the Little Ringed Plover.
		The average distance to the sea wall is 45 ± 33 metres for the Kentish Plover and 245 ± 217 metres for Little Ringed Plover.
		The Kentish Plover, however, tends to make use of a range of salinity that varies much less and most pairs use areas where the salt content is between 5 and 16 g/l.
	home.clara.net /yates/conf.html (3871 words)

	* Ringed Plover - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The ringed plover is a small, dumpy, short-legged wading bird.
		Semipalmated Plover has yellow legs and a small bicolored bill (all dark in winter) and is smaller over all.
		The Killdeer is the largest of the ringed plovers, and the only plover in its range with a double breast band.
	www.bestknows.com /bird/ringed_plover.html (200 words)

	The Biodiversity Lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the Kentish plover the sexual conflict over care is expressed when the chicks hatch: either the male or the female abandons the brood.
		Our work in Southern Turkey has discovered that the parents carefully evaluate the costs and benefits of this tug-of-war, and now we are investigating the behavioural processes by which the parents interact with each other (Dr. T Székely).
		Recently we showed recently, that the sex ratio of Kentish plover chicks is indeed, at parity at hatching, although brood sex ratio varies over the breeding season (Dr. T Székely).
	www.bath.ac.uk /bio-sci/biodiversity-lab/research.html (491 words)

	CBC News:Biologists explain why birds unfaithful to partners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While human infidelity may be motivated by any number of reasons, scientists say cheating by socially monogamous shore birds seems to provide greater genetic diversity when they are already paired to genetically similar partners.
		Researchers from six countries looked at the so-called extra-pair mating tactics of females from three bird species: western sandpipers in Alaska, common sandpipers in southern Sweden and Kentish plovers in Turkey.
		It seems some female birds actively seek copulations with other males, and some males who mate with other females allow the eggs to be laid in the male's home nest.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2002/10/11/birds_cheat021011 (432 words)

	Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus
		Some pairs of the Kentish Plover are today known to breed in other coastal wetlands.
		The biggest colony of Kentish Plover in Slovenia is in the basin near the Salt Museum.
		After 1991 (after the war in Slovenia) we noticed the first population peak, which could be a consequence of low human disturbance in period of the war.
	www2.arnes.si /~kpornitold2/kentish.htm (193 words)

	Plovers in Hampshire (Charadrius) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Described by BOH as a scarce breeding summer visitor and passage migrant, Little Ringed Plover was not recorded in Hampshire until 1951.
		BOH describes the Ringed Plover as a moderately common passage migrant and winter visitor.
		This form has never previously been recorded in the UK and it is the only the third Lesser Sand Plover recorded in the UK.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /birdsofhants/species/plovers1.htm (433 words)

	B-Mail(sm): ID-FRONTIERS for October 1-9, 2004
		Is this a runt, intergrade or imperfect Richardson's?
		Here in=20 California the legs of Snowy Plover are pretty standard greyish with slight= =20 pinkish tones, or flish so the leg colour stood out to me. I mentioned=20 that it gave the initial suggestion of being a Collared Plover, a species=20 that can be ruled out by several other features.
		Leg colour seems anomalous for the most part with most races of Snowy Plover, but to clarify, the legs can be seen to be pale greyish around the ankles and partially on the sides of the tibia (I don't have photos in front of me..).
	www.virtualbirder.com /bmail/idfrontiers/200410/w1 (8833 words)

	Snowy Plover, West Haven, CT, USA, October 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I discovered this Snowy Plover at Sandy Point on 1st October and the bird continues to be present through the 9th.
		The overall colour, size and shape of the CT bird seem to rule out the Gulf coast race and would indicate the bird belongs to either the Western population (nivosus) or the nominate European race (alexandrinus), the latter colloquially known as Kentish Plover.
		The bird's dark brown-grey upperparts, dark loral line and rather rangy "jizz" (caused by a relatively long bill and legs) necessitate that the European race be considered.
	www.naturescapeimages.net /Snowy/index.htm (227 words)

	Plovers under pressure: Kentish Plovers in southern Portugal (Birds) - arocha, international, cross-cultural, ...
		The Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus is an attractive small plover that occurs widely acround the world.
		These studies were designed to find out more about the factors that influence Kentish Plovers in selecting a nest site and which determine hatching success.
		Nevertheless unless some action is taken then Kentish Plover populations in the Alvor Estuary will almost certainly decline dramatically.
	en.arocha.org /birds/index7.html (1108 words)

	Kamusi - Search Results
		The results for 'plover' are displayed below in alphabetical order, so please do not assume that the first entry you see is the best result.
		Kentish plover, pl Kentish plovers { Swahili: kitwitwi ukosi-mwekundu, pl vitwitwi ukosi-mwekundu } [Terminology: ornithology]
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	research.yale.edu /cgi-bin/swahili/lookup.cgi?Word=plover&EngP=1 (741 words)

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