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upland plover

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noun

  1. an American sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, with a short slender bill and long tail

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Two caterpillar enemies of cotton, the cotton worm and the cotton cutworm, are eaten by the upland plover and killdeer.

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

Wisconsin: Double-crested cormorant, upland plover, white pelican, long-billed curlew, lesser snow goose, Hudsonian curlew, sandhill crane, golden plover, woodcock, dowitcher and long-billed duck; spruce grouse, knot, prairie sharp-tailed grouse, marbled godwit and bald eagle.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

Wireworms and their adult forms, click beetles, are devoured by the northern phalarope, woodcock, jacksnipe, pectoral sandpiper, killdeer, and upland plover.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

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