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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..

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

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

Plover :: Plover (n.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sanderling :: Sanderling (n.) A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover..

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..

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

Crookbill :: Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right..

Stone-hearted :: Stonehatch (n.) The ring plover, or dotterel..

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

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

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