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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..

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

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

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

Squatter :: Squaterole (n.) 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..

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

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

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..

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

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

Ringneck :: Ringneck (n.) Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Aegialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Ae. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Ae. meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover..

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

Grallae :: Grallae (n. pl.) An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores..

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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