black-bellied plover
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of black-bellied plover
An Americanism dating back to 1805–15
Example Sentences
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The largest of the family Charadridæ is the black-bellied plover.
From Project Gutenberg
The black-bellied plover is reasonably common along the coast line, but it is not seen to any great extent in the interior valleys.
From Project Gutenberg
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
On Isle Grand Terre, LSU researcher Richard Gibbons saw a black-bellied plover, a skinny-legged shorebird, with oil on its face.
From Washington Post
It is a birders' ecstasy for a few minutes�a blue-winged teal, a pectoral sandpiper, a black-bellied plover.
From Time Magazine Archive
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