black-bellied plover
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of black-bellied plover
An Americanism dating back to 1805–15
Example Sentences
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But as the afternoon wears on and the water retreats, a crowd of little birds arrives to feast in the shallows: short-billed dowitchers, Western sandpipers, a black-bellied plover.
From Time • Aug. 28, 2010
It is a birders' ecstasy for a few minutes�a blue-winged teal, a pectoral sandpiper, a black-bellied plover.
From Time Magazine Archive
The largest of the family Charadridæ is the black-bellied plover.
From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Payne, Harry Thom
New York: Quail, woodcock, upland plover, golden plover, black-bellied plover, willet, dowitcher, red-breasted sandpiper, long-billed curlew, wood-duck, purple martin, redheaded woodpecker, mourning dove; gray squirrel, otter.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
The black-bellied plover or beetlehead, which occurred along the Atlantic seaboard in great numbers years ago, is now seen only as a straggler.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
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