upland plover

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

The upland plover wails his greeting to the tussocked pastures, where day and night rings the shrill chorus of the hylas and the trill of the toads continually trembles in the soft air.

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Also there were many crow-blackbirds hopping about in the dry fields, and the upland plover were breeding close by the light-house.

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May, and the upland plovers now were nesting all across the prairies.

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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.

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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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