..., reports that upland plovers areindustrious in following the plow and in eating the grubs thatdestroy garden stuff, corn, and cotton crops...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...Snowy Plovers are very much like the Piping, butare smaller (length 6...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...This interesting species has most of itsstructural characters similar to the Plovers,but has more the appearance and habits of theRails...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Most plovers nest in the Arctic regions, where man andhis wicked ways are unknown...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...Though not ranked as song birds, many of the Snipes and Plovers havepleasing calls and whistles and in the breeding season they becomehighly musical or indulge in singular vocal performances...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...The Plovers have shorter, harder bills than the true Snipe and severalof our species frequent the uplands rather than muddy shore ortidal flats...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...All along the beach and at the edge of the lagunaat both camps we found Willets in twos or threes, often accompaniedby one or two Black-bellied Plovers...
Robert K Selander 「Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, México」
...Then we saw that our "pigeons," or "sea-birds,"had been nothing but killdeer plovers, which, like other long-wingedbirds, look much larger in the air than when at rest...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...In some of its habits it resembles the Plovers, as it frequentsopen plains and runs with great rapidity...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...They are essentially Plovers in all theirhabits, except, perhaps, that they do not run so rapidly as someothers of the tribe...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...In their mode of using their wings they remind thespectator of Ducks rather than of Plovers, and they advance ina line, sometimes in single file, one after another, but more frequentlywing by wing...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...—The only individual seen was taken from a mixed flock of Sanderlings and Wilson Plovers...
Erwin E. Klaas 「Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula」
...As my head appears abovethe burn side, the ever-watchful curlews whistleand the plovers scream...
Anonymous 「The Confessions of a Poacher」
...Duringthe evening also some plovers flew over us, and we heard some native dogshowling to the south-west...
Charles Sturt 「Expedition into Central Australia」
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