plover

It is interesting to notice a resemblance between this huge bird and our English wild duck or plover.

Several yellow-legged plover were shot along the banks, but no attempt was made to bag ducks, as it was their breeding season.

A low call came from a brooding curlew, a faint sigh from a plover, and the wild rasping cry of a lapwing greeted them overhead.

The common tern and the greater sand-plover nested on the shingly islands in the river.