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	lesser mongolian plover (charadrius mongolus): info fact sheet, photos
		Mongolian Plovers feed on small invertebrates such as worms, crabs and bivalves.
		Mongolian Plovers prefer to forage on tidal mudflats, particularly in the soft mud between the tides.
		Mongolian Plovers usually winter on muddy and sandy coasts, and occasionally at inland wetlands or on cultivated grounds.
	www.naturia.per.sg /buloh/birds/Charadrius_mongolus.htm (704 words)

	Lesser Sand-Plover - Whatbird.com
		Seed ports are decorative and chew-resistant; seed tray has a quick-release feature for cleaning.
		Lesser Sand-Plover: Medium-sized plover with gray upperparts, white underparts, and bright rust-brown breast band and nape.
		Head has gray-brown cap and thick fl eyestripe broken by a white forehead.
	identify.whatbird.com /obj/388/_/Mongolian_Plover.aspx (826 words)

	Mongolian Plover at Ocean Ranch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Mongolian Plover was slightly larger than adjacent Semipalmated Plovers and differed from them in its lack of a white collar around the back of the neck and broader warmer brown breast patches.
		Soon a Peregrine spooked the flock and we were able to view the Mongolian Plover in flight directly overhead through binoculars.
		The slightly larger size of the Mongolian Plover was also evident in flight, making the bird somewhat easier to pick out.
	fog.ccsf.edu /~jmorlan/mopl.htm (383 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		It was abolished as a province in 1952; most of it was incorporated in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, and the rest was divided between Shanxi and Hebei provs.
		Hinggan Ling, Da Hinggan Ling, Da, or Great Khinganboth: hĬng´gän´, mountain range, Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, NE China, extending c.750 mi (1,210 km) from the Amur River south to the Liao River; the highest point is 5,657 ft (1,724 m).
		The lapwing of Eurasia (Vanellus vanellus), called also green plover, or pewit, is a noisy and conspicuous bird...
	www.encyclopedia.com /search.asp?target=Mongolian+Plover&rc=10&fh=16&fr=11 (492 words)

	Plover page
		Plovers occur throughout the world, from high arctic tundra to tropical sandbars.
		Migratory plovers, like the golden-plovers, generally have a bright alternate plumage worn on nesting grounds while tropical plovers tend to look the same year-round.
		Biochemical evidence suggests the plovers, except for the enigmatic Magellanic Plover Pluvianellus socialis of southern South America (which Charles Sibley once suggested raising to family status!), all share a common ancestor (i.e., are holophyletic; see Piersma 1996).
	montereybay.com /creagrus/plovers.html (742 words)

	Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Plovers are a widely distributed family of wading birds with 64-66 species.
		The plovers are found throughout the world, and are characterised by relatively short bills.
		Although they are conventionally divided into a number of genera, most of this group are fairly readily recognised as plovers.
	www.termsdefined.net /pl/plover.html (410 words)

	The Independent, May 30, 2001 - First-ever Snowy Plover draws hundreds of viewers to Presqu’ile
		The bird is a Snowy Plover, and it is a scarce, beach-loving shorebird that is typically found sparingly along parts of the Gulf of Mexico, the US west coast, and in parts of the interior south west US.
		Snowy Plovers get their name because of their very pale plumage, which helps them blend in well with the sand beaches they require for breeding and feeding.
		That bird was the Mongolian Plover, which dropped onto the beach on May 4th, 1984.
	www.eastnorthumberland.com /news/news2001/newsMay2001/Plover05302001.html (654 words)

	Mongolian language resources
		The Mongolian Homepage is a compilation of Mongolian writers works on Mongolia and its history, language, government, culture., as well as the Econominc Laws...
		The Mongolian horse is one of the most important and numerous breeds found among the indigenous horse breeds of China.
		Mongolian blue spots are flat bluish- to bluish-gray skin markings commonly appearing at birth or shortly thereafter...
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Mongolian.html (893 words)

	IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay. Roosevelt, Theodore. 1914. Through the Brazilian Wilderness
		There were various houses, sheds, and corrals near the river’s edge, and fifty or sixty milch cows were gathered in one corral.
		Spurred plover, or lapwings, strolled familiarly among the hens.
		In addition to the spurred lapwing, characteristic and most interesting resident of most of South America, we found tiny red-legged plover which also breed and are at home in the tropics.
	www.bartleby.com /174/4.html (8871 words)

	* Golden Plover - (Bird): Definition
		Golden Plovers frequent marshes, sandy hills, old fields, sand-flats exposed by the falling tide, plowed fields, and burned tracts which are free of trees and bushes...
		The American Golden Plover is one of the longest-distance migrants, summering on the Arctic Tundra, and wintering in southern South America...
		The less common Snowy Plover and Wilson's Plover are also residents, both found along the coasts.
	www.mimihu.com /bird/golden_plover.html (234 words)

	Charadriinae - 鸻亚科 - チドリ亜科 - Họ Choi choi
		Along with the Recurvirostrinae, the Charadriinae (plovers and lapwings) belong to the Charadriidae.
		The plovers are also called モモチドリ momochi-dori, written 百千鳥, meaning 'hundred-thousand bird' (also used for Cettia diphone, the Japanese bush warbler).
		The plover is also called the 川千鳥 (kawa-chidori or 'river plover'), 浜千鳥 (hama-chidori or 'shore plover'), 群千鳥 (mure-chidori or 'flocking plover'), 夕千鳥 (yū-chidori or 'evening plover'), or 磯千鳥 (iso-chidori or 'rocky-shore plover').
	www.cjvlang.com /Birds/plover.html (553 words)

	* Ringed Plover - (Bird): Definition
		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.mimihu.com /bird/ringed_plover.html (200 words)

	Mongolian Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Lesser Sand Plover, Charadrius mongolus, is a small wader in the plover family of birds.The spelling is commonly given as Lesser Sandplover, but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is Lesser Sand Plover.
		It is a very rare vagrant in western Europe, but,surprisingly, of the three individuals recorded in Great Britain up to2003, one was a Mongolian Plover.
		The Lesser Sand Plover's food is insects, crustaceans and worms, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique,rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups.
	www.therfcc.org /mongolian-plover-371544.html (350 words)

	Rare, wayward plover stars in Stinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The vagrant bird is either a Mongolian Sand Plover, the seventh of its kind to have made a trip to the United States, or a Greater Sand Plover, which birders have never before seen in North America.
		Mongolian Sand Plovers, which have been seen before in West Marin, breed on the shores of the Bering Sea and winter on the shores of Vietnam, Cambodia, and southward to Australia.
		Pyle said the sand plover appears to be a youngster that might not join its closest cousins, the Semipalmated plovers, when they migrate to their breeding grounds in Canada this April or May.
	www.ptreyeslight.com /stories/feb08_01/sand_plover.html (726 words)

	Possible Kentish Plover in SEQ
		Personally I can't see why this isn't a Kentish Plover, it certainly looks longer-legged and all I can see is a partial breast-band not a "complete" one.
		Few 'charadrius' plovers have a complete white-collar as with this bird.
		Malaysian Plover usually has a less pronounced white supercilium, Ringed or Little Ringed would have a complete breast-band.
	bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au /archives/html/birding-aus/2004-03/msg00086.html (227 words)

	Original Artwork: Pal Varga: Mongolian Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Mongolian Plover, Charadrius mongolus, known in the Marshall Islands as Make-iaan, is a small, gray-brown bird about eight inches long.
		The Mongolian Plover is distinguished by white underparts with a brown breast band, a dark smudge around the eyes, a white forehead and a sandy brown back and cap.
		The mongolian Plover prefers to be solitary when feeding.
	www.artworkoriginals.com /EB5TB0HI.htm (328 words)

	Lesser Golden-Plover / Dulili — Divison of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources
		Another common kind of plover on Guam is the Mongolian Plover (Charadrius mongolus).
		Other plovers, although uncommon, are the Black-Bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola), the Great Sand-Plover (Charadrius leschenaultii), the Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula), the Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius), and the Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus).
		All plovers share the collective Chamoru term "dulili" and all are protected under the Federal Migratory Bird Act.
	www.guamdawr.org /learningcenter/factsheets/birds/plover_html (339 words)

	Killdeer
		Killdeer: Large banded plover with brown upperparts and white underparts.
		Killdeer: Similar to this bird is the Semipalmated Plover, which is smaller and has a single breast band.
		Also similar is Wilson's Plover, which is smaller, has a single breast band, a brown back, rump, and tail.
	www.percevia.com /explorer/db/birds_of_north_america_western/obj/101/target.aspx (554 words)

	Black-bellied Plover
		Black-Bellied Plover: This plover breeds in northwestern Alaska and Arctic Canada.
		Black-Bellied Plover: Three or four buff eggs, spotted with brown, are laid in a shallow depression lined with moss, lichens, and grass.
		Black-Bellied Plover: Similar is the American Golden-Plover, which is smaller and has duskier under wings.
	www.percevia.com /explorer/db/birds_of_north_america_western/obj/172/target.aspx (546 words)

	Esquimalt Lagoon bird sanctuary Victoria BC
		Peeps and plovers can often be found along the shorelines.
		In 1996 a visiting birder was fortunate to discover a Mongolian Plover along this stretch.
		Look out to the rocky island in the middle of the lagoon because Double-crested Cormorant frequently roost and dry their wings on that island.
	www.esquimaltlagoon.com (1020 words)

	Mongol.Plover 26 Jul 99
		A Mongolian Plover was seen Saturday and Sunday at Ninigret Flats (Charlestown Breachway), Rhode Island.
		Please continue to post any updates for there is certainly still a lot of interest in this bird.
		The MONGOLIAN PLOVER was found at 5:45 this morning, and was in view continuously until at least 10:30 when I left.
	www.princeton.edu /~llarson/njb/mongolplover26jul99.html (1007 words)

	Mongolian Plover
		Hi John, I suspect someone is getting their Greaters and Lessers muddled up.
		Last week it was a Greater Sand Plover reported to me from USA (same beach), not a Mongolian.
		The article is about a lone Mongolian Plover which has turned up at Stinson Beach just north of San Francisco.
	bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au /archives/html/birding-aus/2001-03/msg00312.html (175 words)

	Personal Museum of Natural History - Plovers, Oystercatchers, Lapwings, Avocets...
		This room displays photos of plovers and their relatives including oystercatchers, lapwings and avocets.
		Red-capped Plover [1], Akaeri Shiro Chidori or Charadrius ruficapillus.
		Kentish Plover [1][2], Shiro chidori or Charadrius alexandrinus.
	www.planktonik.com /museum/en/birds/f_plovers.html (127 words)

	languagehat.com: December 2003 Archives
		I have about 20 of them, including Mongolian, Armenian, Irish Gaelic, Yiddish, and "Hochchinesisch." The Finnish one was the single most useful Finnish learning aid in my first year here.
		The current form is in part due to popular etymology, which connected the word with lap v.2 and wing sb.] A well-known bird of the plover family, Vanellus vulgaris or cristatus, common in the temperate parts of the Old World.
		Allusions are frequent to its crested head, to its wily method of drawing away a visitor from its nest, and to the notion that the newly hatched lapwing runs about with its head in the shell.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/2003_12.php (8199 words)

	International Shorebird Gallery - Part 1
		Blacksmith Plover from ZOO IN THE WILD (Editrice Del Vascello)
		Collared Plover Charadrius collaris, adult female, by Greg Lasley and Martin Reid, 9-12 May 1992, Uvalde, TX for first U.S. record.
		Mongolian Plover, Shorebirds from Queensland by Tom & Marie Tarrant
	pw1.netcom.com /~djhoff/sbimage1.html (939 words)

	Elkhorn Slough vagrants
		I got Ed's call and was able to round out the last-remaining birders waiting at Hopkins; we all dashed to Moss Landing and got a few moments of fine views before the gull took wing and headed seaward once and for all.
		Among the Snowy Plover flock on Moss Landing State Beach in September 1992 were two incredible vagrants which had arrived from opposite directions: Wilson's Plover (far left; photo 15 Sep 1992) and Mongolian Plover (near left; photo 16 Sep 1992; both © Don Roberson).
		Both these rarities were found by Snowy Plover researchers who regularly count and note the color bands in the Snowy Plover flock.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/ES_vag.html (442 words)

	Mike Danzenbaker's Mongolian Plover (Charadrius mongolus) Photo Page
		Mike Danzenbaker's Mongolian Plover (Charadrius mongolus) Photo Page
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	www.avesphoto.com /website/JP/species/PLVMON.htm (76 words)

	Lesser Sand Plover -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Lesser Sand Plover -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The spelling is commonly given as Lesser Sandplover, but the official (Click link for more info and facts about British Ornithologists' Union) British Ornithologists' Union spelling is Lesser Sand Plover.
		In all plumages, this species is very similar to (Click link for more info and facts about Greater Sand Plover) Greater Sand Plover, Charadrius leschenaultii.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/Le/Lesser_Sand_Plover.htm (198 words)

	Birds of Interior Alaska: Shorebirds: Semipalmated Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Semipalmated Plovers are a great little shorebird for beginning bird watchers
		(In western and northwest Alaska watch for rusty-red chests of the Mongolian Plover!)
		Semipalmated Plovers run swiftly, with their back flat and straighten up when they stop.
	www.birdsinalaska.org /sppl.htm (78 words)

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