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	Plover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plovers are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae.
		There are about 40 species in the subfamily, most of them called "plover" or "dotterel".
		Plovers are found throughout the world, and are characterised by relatively short bills.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plover (139 words)

	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 /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761562437 (678 words)

	Nebraska Game and Parks Commission - Wildlife Species Guide - Mountain Plover
		The mountain plover (Charadrius montanus) is a member of the group of birds called shorebirds that are usually found along the edges of water areas.
		The mountain plover is a Great Plains native that breeds on the arid shortgrass prairie from northern Montana to southern New Mexico and winters in California, Texas and Mexico.
		The mountain plover is generally considered an inhabitant of the arid shortgrass prairie, which is dominated by blue grama and buffalo grass with scattered clumps of cacti and forbs.
	www.ngpc.state.ne.us /wildlife/plover.asp (2093 words)

	A History of Plover to 1984
		Plover's population in 1880 was 412, which was a decline from the almost consistent 500 inhabitants during the 1860s and 18709.
		According to the Village of Plover's Ordinance Record from 1912-1931, a petition was introduced in the Circuit Court of Portage County on February 3, 1912, "In the matter of the incorporation of the Village of Plover." The petitioners were E. Rossier, Geo.
		Plover is located in the center of the state in a geological province known as the "central sand plain." The area is mostly flat, unglaciated lands composed of glacial outwash sands called ''Friendship” sands.
	www.pchswi.org /archives/communities/plover/hplover1.html (6169 words)

	Pacific Golden Plover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva) is a medium-sized plover.
		In winter, the fl is lost and the plover then has a yellowish face and breast, and white underparts.
		The breeding habitat of Pacific Golden Plover is arctic tundra from northernmost Asia into western Alaska.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pacific_Golden_Plover (240 words)

	The Indian Ocean's Crab-loving PLOVER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	Mars Plover: February 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At 1148 GMT, the NEST Mars Plover successfully landed on Mars, and transmitted a brief series of tones to indicate it is alive and well.
		Plover operators on Earth then commanded the Plover to deploy its remote holographic interferometer, which transmitted this image showing the lander correctly situated in an upright position.
		The Mars Plover is on schedule for its historic rendezvous with the red planet on February 29, 2004.
	plover.zode.com /archives/2004_02.html (2555 words)

	NJDEP Division of Fish & Wildlife - July 2003 Species of the Month - Piping Plover
		The Piping Plover (Charadius melodus) was the July Species of the Month in honor of the 30th Anniversary of the New Jersey Endangered Species Conservation Act and the formation of DEP's Endangered and Nongame Species Program (ENSP).
		Hunters and egg collectors decimated piping plovers and other shorebirds in the late 1800s through early 1900s, using their plumes to accessorize hats that were then considered fashionable.
		When piping plovers arrive in New Jersey each spring they eat a lot to recover the energy and body weight lost during the long migration from their coastal wintering grounds to the south.
	www.nj.gov /dep/fgw/ensp/somjuly.htm (1095 words)

	Golden Plover
		Plover chicks don't require extended care or mouth to mouth feeding from their parents like baby robins.
		The plovers are considered to be shorebirds, with long legs, a short tail, sharply pointed wings, a dove-like head, short bill, muscular breast, and streamlined body.
		Many plovers establish individual territories on their winter range; a territory is about the size of a football field.
	www.scsc.k12.ar.us /2001migration/Projects/CarpenterD (1142 words)

	Piping Plover
		Even though plovers are small and hard to see, they make their presence known by their clear, soft song.
		Plovers are very site tenacious and return year after year to the same nesting territory.
		Plovers winter along the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico, the southern Atlantic states, the Bahamas and the West Indies.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/land/er/factsheets/birds/PLOVER.HTM (1604 words)

	NatureWorks - Piping Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The piping plover returns to its breeding ground in late March or early April.
		The male piping plover courts the female by flying over her and swooping down close to the ground.
		Piping plovers and their eggs blend in very well with the sand, which is good camouflage from predators, but it can put them in danger of being stepped on by humans.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/pipingplover.htm (456 words)

	NatureWorks - Semipalmated Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The semipalmated plover is about seven inches in length with a brown back and a white underside.
		The semipalmated plover breeds on sandy or mossy tundra.
		The semipalmated plover is very territorial during mating season and often flies a few feet over its territory to warn other plovers away.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/semipalmplover.htm (204 words)

	FINAL RULE: WESTERN SNOWY PLOVER, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Pacific coast population of the western snowy plover is defined as those individuals that nest adjacent to or near tidal waters, and includes all nesting colonies on the mainland coast, peninsulas, offshore islands, adjacent bays, and estuaries.
		Plover food availability on raked beaches also may be depressed for both breeding and wintering birds, because surf-cast kelp and associated invertebrates are removed and the upper centimeter of the sand substrate is disturbed (J.P. Myers, in litt., 1988).
		This population of the western snowy plover is threatened by loss and modification of nesting habitat resulting from encroachment of European beachgrass, extensive human recreational use of nesting areas, and human development of the coast.
	www.fws.gov /endangered/r/fr93493.html (10901 words)

	plover
		Plovers are plumpish wading birds with pigeonlike bills and strong markings of fl or brown above with white below.
		Lapwings are slightly larger than plovers and are found in most tropical and temperate countries, with the notable exception of North America, where they have been extinct since the Pleistocene era.
		Both lapwings and plovers nest on open ground and dig shallow hollows lined with pebbles or plant debris where their clutch of eggs (usually four) are deposited.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0839388.html (391 words)

	Mountain Plover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The mountain plover is a migratory bird that winters in Arizona.
		The mountain plover is one of the nine bird species endemic to the North American grasslands.
		Mountain plovers winter mainly in the grasslands and cultivated fields of California, and to a lesser extent are found wintering in Arizona, Texas, and Mexico.
	www.co.pima.az.us /cmo/sdcp/sdcp2/fsheets/mp.html (431 words)

	Stevens Point Journal - Plover doubles cemetery fees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		PLOVER - Fees for the Plover Cemetery have doubled for village and town residents.
		Half of the Plover Cemetery fees go toward perpetual care, such as planting trees, and half toward maintenance, such as mowing and fltopping, she said.
		The Plover Cemetery was established in 1920, but people were buried there in the 1800s, said Judi Polum, Plover Cemetery Committee member.
	www.wisinfo.com /journal/spjlocal/285181347665038.shtml (422 words)

	Government To Study Sex Lives of Snowy Plover - Daily Nexus Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The USFWS decision to study de-listing the plover stemmed from a February 2004 lawsuit filed by the libertarian-aligned Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of the Santa Barbara County-based Surf Ocean Beach Commission and the city of Morro Bay.
		While some banding data, obtained by tracking plovers that have been affixed with special identification tags, has shown that inland plovers interact with coastal plovers, Sandoval said this is not proof that the two populations are interbreeding.
		She said there is an overlap between the wintering season for the inland plovers, who move to southern beaches in search of warmer weather, and the breeding season for the coastal plovers, which explains why the different populations of birds can sometimes be found together.
	www.ucsbdailynexus.com /news/2004/7017.html (1051 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 Ferry - Connecting Blaine WA and Semiahmoo Resort
		Built in 1944 in Seattle, the MV Plover was used to shuttle cannery workers to the Alaskan Packers Salmon Cannery on Semiahmoo Spit, now home to Semiahmoo Resort and Spa.
		The MV Plover docking area is located in the Blaine Marina on Marine Drive by the Blaine Moorage Dock at Gate II, just off I-5 Exit 276.
		On the Semiahmoo Resort side, the Plover docking area is on the pier behind Pierside Restaurant.
	www.mvplover.org (345 words)

	Species Monitoring - Snowy Plover
		The Western Snowy Plover is a sparrow-sized shorebird that breeds and winters on sandy beaches from Washington to Baja California, Mexico.
		Due to the efforts of the volunteers, plovers bred successfully here in 2001 for the first time in over 30 years, and should continue to do so (14 chicks fledged in 2002, fide K. Radasky).
		Audubon chapters and their members are involved with annual statewide winter survey of plovers, which has been coordinated by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as outlined in the Western Snowy Plover Recovery Plan.
	www.audubon.org /chapter/ca/ca/snowy_plover.html (731 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Pacific Golden-Plover
		This medium-sized plover is morphologically similar to the American Golden-Plover and previous to decisive studies, the two were regarded as subspecies.
		Arrival back to the breeding grounds is influenced by latitude and annual variations in snowmelt, with the earliest arrivals (in the southern part of their range) in late April and the latest (in the northern reaches) by the end of June.
		This plover may be capable of maintaining seeds in its digestive tract to help it survive its long migratory flights.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=155 (1144 words)

	Piping Plover Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The piping plover is a small sand colored shorebird with orange legs.
		The piping plover is classified as threatened throughout it's entire North American range and as endangered in Maryland.
		Piping plover populations have been reduced due to increased development and recreational uses of beaches along the Atlantic coast.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /wildlife/pplover.html (203 words)

	Mars Plover: April 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mars Exploration Plover Egress Vehicle conducted a second aerial scan this morning, and was able to image the Monolith from a near-zenith angle before exhausting power for this sol.
		The Mars Exploration Plover landed on Mars on February 29, 2004; its primary mission was to search of evidence of water on the red planet.
		The Mars Exploration Plover Egress Vehicle sent back this image yesterday afternoon of what appears to be an anomalous object buried in the martian soil.
	plover.zode.com /archives/2004_04.html (1817 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Piping Plover
		Piping Plovers can be distinguished from other similar species in breeding plumage by their orange legs, short orange bill (tipped in fl) and relatively light coloration.
		In 2005, BirdLife estimated the Piping Plover population at 6,410 (http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species).
		The greatest threat to Piping Plovers is continued alteration of breeding and wintering habitat.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=160 (1379 words)

	Snowy Plover Public Education
		The Snowy Plover Docent Program is a volunteer effort organized by the Santa Barbara Audubon Society to assist the Coal Oil Point Reserve in the protection and recovery of the local population of Snowy Plovers.
		In 1999 and 2000, researchers discovered that plovers on the Reserve were being disturbed (made to expend energy by running or flying away) on average every 20 minutes by people or their pets.
		A Snowy Plover Management Plan for Coal Oil Point Reserve was drafted in 2001 by its director, Dr. Cristina Sandoval, to reduce disturbance to plovers on the Reserve while maintaining beach access for the public.
	www.rain.org /~audubon/sbasplvreducation.html (550 words)

	Species Monitoring - Mountain Plover
		Mountain Plover - from the Birds of North America.
		One of the most important wintering sites is California's Imperial Valley, where up to 40% of the global population may spend the winter in agricultural fields and pastures, especially those recently-burned or grazed.
		Significant numbers of Mountain Plovers also winter in upland areas of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the western San Joaquin Valley, the Carrizo Plain and the Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles.
	www.audubon-ca.org /mountain_plover.html (289 words)

	Wilson's Plover
		This interesting species, which always looks to me as if in form a miniature copy of the Black-bellied Plover, is a constant resident in the southern districts of the Union.
		WILSON's Plover begins to lay its eggs about the time when the young of the Piping Plover are running after their parents.
		Twenty or thirty yards from the uppermost beat of the waves, on the first of June, or some day not distant from it, the female may be seen scratching a small cavity in the shelly sand, in which she deposits four eggs, placing them carefully with the broad end outermost.
	www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F35_G1e.html (1516 words)

	EEK! - Critter Corner - The Upland Plover
		This plover is common in eastern parts of the state, but may be seen in the central and western parts of Wisconsin from April to October.
		If you’re looking for the upland plover, it is usually found alone perching on rocks and posts in order to see above tall grasses.
		The upland plover's tail is long and has a dark band at the tips of the feathers.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/caer/ce/eek/critter/bird/plover.htm (202 words)

	PLOVER - Online Information article about PLOVER
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		The grey plover is a bird of almost circumpolar range, breeding in the far See also:
		Though the various forms here spoken of as plovers are almost certainly closely allied, they must be regarded as constituting a very indefinite group, for hardly any strong See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PIG_POL/PLOVER.html (1321 words)

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