upland plover
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They quit early at dusk, satisfied at having spotted 129 species, including such rarities as the upland plover and the western kingbird.
From Time Magazine Archive
In North America this is to-day the status of the whooping crane, upland plover, and several other species.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
The whooping crane, the sage grouse, the trumpeter swan, the wild turkey, and the upland plover never will come back to us, and nothing that we can do ever will bring them back.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
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
Again, from some unknown, undiscoverable place, came the liquid, baffling, mysterious note of the nesting upland plover, sweet and clean as pure white honey.
From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson
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