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Semipalmated Plover

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The Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) is a small plover. Their breeding habitat is open ground on beaches or flats across northern Canada and Alaska.

The Three-banded Plover or Three-banded Sandplover, Charadrius tricollaris, is a small wader. This plover is resident in much of eastern and southern Africa and Madagascar, mainly on inland rivers, ...

Kittlitz's Plover

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The Kittlitz’s Plover (Charadrius pecuarius) is a small plover found in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and the Nile delta.

Piping Plover

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The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America.

Killdeer

Animals; Birds

The Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a medium-sized plover. Their breeding habitat is open fields or lawns, often quite far from water, across most of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, with ...

Upland Sandpiper

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The Upland Sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, is a large shorebird, closely related to the curlews. The breeding habitat is open grasslands and fields across central North America and Alaska; it is not ...

Far Eastern Curlew

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The Far Eastern Curlew or Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) is a large shorebird most similar in appearance to the Long-billed Curlew, but slightly larger. The Far Eastern Curlew spends its ...