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upland plover
noun
- an American sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, with a short slender bill and long tail
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On its breeding grounds it often hovers, almost motionless in the air, as the upland plover sometimes does.
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There were upland plover in great plenty; and before I had been away from the camp fifteen minutes I had several in my pockets.
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In North America this is to-day the status of the whooping crane, upland plover, and several other species.
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Upland plover, marbled godwit, Baird's sparrow, chestnut-collared longspur.
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Two caterpillar enemies of cotton, the cotton worm and the cotton cutworm, are eaten by the upland plover and killdeer.
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