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Plovers are a widely distributed group of wading
Wader

Waders, called shorebirds in North America , are members of the order Charadriiformes, excluding the more marine web-footed seabird groups....
 bird
Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
s belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae. They are known to dive in lakes looking for fish. There are about 40 species in the subfamily, most of them called "plover" or "dotterel". The closely related lapwing
Lapwing

Vanellinae are a subfamily of medium-sized wading birds belonging to the family Charadriidae, which also includes the plovers and dotterels. The Vanellinae are collectively called lapwings but also contain the ancient Red-kneed Dotterel....
 subfamily, Vanellinae, comprises another 20-odd species.

Plovers are found throughout the world, and are characterised by relatively short bills.






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Plovers are a widely distributed group of wading
Wader

Waders, called shorebirds in North America , are members of the order Charadriiformes, excluding the more marine web-footed seabird groups....
 bird
Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
s belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae. They are known to dive in lakes looking for fish. There are about 40 species in the subfamily, most of them called "plover" or "dotterel". The closely related lapwing
Lapwing

Vanellinae are a subfamily of medium-sized wading birds belonging to the family Charadriidae, which also includes the plovers and dotterels. The Vanellinae are collectively called lapwings but also contain the ancient Red-kneed Dotterel....
 subfamily, Vanellinae, comprises another 20-odd species.

Plovers are found throughout the world, and are characterised by relatively short bills. They hunt by sight, rather than by feel as longer-billed waders like snipe
Snipe

A snipe is any of nearly 20 wader bird species in three genus in the family Scolopacidae. They are characterised by a very long slender bill and cryptic plumage....
 do.

They feed mainly on insects, worms or other invertebrates, depending on habitat, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups .

Species list in taxonomic order


  • Eurasian Golden Plover
    Eurasian Golden Plover

    The Eurasian Golden Plover, Pluvialis apricaria, is a largish plover. This species is similar to two other golden plovers. American Golden Plover, Pluvialis dominiica, and Pacific Golden Plover, Pluvialis fulva, are both smaller, slimmer and relatively longer-legged than Eurasian Golden Plover, and both have grey rather th...
    , Pluvialis apricaria
  • Pacific Golden Plover
    Pacific Golden Plover

    The Pacific Golden Plover is a medium-sized plover.The 23-26 cm long breeding adult is spotted gold and black on the crown, back and wings....
    , Pluvialis fulva
  • American Golden Plover
    American Golden Plover

    The American Golden Plover is a medium-sized plover.Adults are spotted gold and black on the crown, back and wings. Their face and neck are black with a white border; they have a black breast and a dark rump....
    , Pluvialis dominica - the American and Pacific golden plovers were formerly considered conspecific (as "Lesser golden plover"; Sangster et al., 2002)
  • Grey Plover
    Grey Plover

    The Grey Plover , known as the Black-bellied Plover in North America, is a medium-sized plover breeding in arctic regions. It is a long-distance bird migration, with a nearly world-wide coastal distribution when not breeding....
     or black-bellied plover, Pluvialis squatarola
  • New Zealand Dotterel
    New Zealand Dotterel

    The New Zealand Dotterel or Red-breasted Plover is an endangered species and it is found only in certain areas of New Zealand. Its Maori language names include Tuturiwhatu, Pukunui, and Kukuruatu....
     or Red-breasted Plover, Charadrius obscurus
  • Ringed Plover
    Ringed Plover

    The Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula is a small plover.Adults are 17-19.5 cm in length with a 35-41 cm wingspan. They have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black neckband....
    , Charadrius hiaticula
  • Semipalmated Plover
    Semipalmated Plover

    The Semipalmated Plover is a small plover.Adults have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black neckband....
    , Charadrius semipalmatus
  • Long-billed Plover
    Long-billed Plover

    The Long-billed Plover is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam....
    , Charadrius placidus
  • Little Ringed Plover
    Little Ringed Plover

    The Little Ringed Plover is a small plover.Adults have a grey-brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with one black neckband....
    , Charadrius dubius
  • Wilson's Plover
    Wilson's Plover

    The Wilson's Plover is a small plover.Wilson's Plover is a coastal wader which breeds on both coasts of the Americas from the equator northwards....
    , Charadrius wilsonia
  • Killdeer
    Killdeer

    The killdeer is a medium-sized plover.Adults have a brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with two black bands. The rump is tawny orange....
    , Charadrius vociferus
  • Piping Plover
    Piping Plover

    The Piping Plover is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized wader that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches. The adult has yellow-orange legs, a black band across the forehead from eye to eye, and a black ring around the neck during the breeding season....
    , Charadrius melodus
  • Black-banded Plover, Charadrius thoracicus
  • Kittlitz's Plover
    Kittlitz's Plover

    The Kittlitz?s Plover, Charadrius pecuarius, is a small plover found in much of sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and the Nile delta. Some birds, especially in coastal areas, are resident, other populations are bird migration or nomadic....
    , Charadrius pecuarius
  • Saint Helena Plover, Charadrius sanctaehelenae


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  • Three-banded Plover
    Three-banded Plover

    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, pools and lakes....
    , Charadrius tricollaris
  • Forbes' Plover, Charadrius forbesi
  • Kentish Plover
    Kentish Plover

    The Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, is a small wader in the plover bird family. Despite its name, this species no longer breeds in Kent, or even Great Britain....
     or Snowy Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus
  • Javan Plover
    Javan Plover

    The Javan Plover is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.It is Endemism to Indonesia.Its natural habitats are sandy shores and intertidal flats....
    , Charadrius (alexandrinus) javanicus
  • White-fronted Plover
    White-fronted Plover

    The White-fronted Plover or White-fronted Sandplover, Charadrius marginatus, is a small wader. This plover is resident in much of Africa south of the Sahara on rocky, sandy or muddy coasts and large inland rivers and lakes....
    , Charadrius marginatus
  • Red-capped Plover
    Red-capped Plover

    The Red-capped Plover , also known as the Red-capped Dotterel, is a small plover closely related to the Kentish Plover....
    , Charadrius ruficapillus
  • Malaysian Plover
    Malaysian Plover

    The Malaysian Plover is a small wader that nests on beaches and salt flats in Southeast Asia....
    , Charadrius peronii
  • Chestnut-banded Plover
    Chestnut-banded Plover

    The Chestnut-banded Plover is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
    , Charadrius pallidus
  • Collared Plover
    Collared Plover

    The Collared Plover, Charadrius collaris, is a small shorebird in the plover family , which is closely related to the curlews. It lives at coasts and riverbanks of the tropical to temperate Americas south of Mexico...
    , Charadrius collaris
  • Puna Plover
    Puna Plover

    The Puna Plover is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.Its natural habitats are freshwater lakes and saline marshes....
    , Charadrius alticola
  • Double-banded Plover
    Double-banded Plover

    The Double-banded Plover , known as the Banded Dotterel in New Zealand, is a small wader in the plover family of birds....
    , Charadrius bicinctus
  • Two-banded Plover
    Two-banded Plover

    The Two-banded Plover is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.It breeds in Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands. Part of the population migrates north in winter with some birds reaching Uruguay and southern Brazil....
    , Charadrius falklandicus
  • Lesser Sand Plover
    Lesser Sand Plover

    The Lesser Sand Plover, Charadrius mongolus, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as Lesser Sandplover, but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is Lesser Sand Plover....
    , Charadrius mongolus
  • Greater Sand Plover
    Greater Sand Plover

    The Greater Sand Plover, Charadrius leschenaultii, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as greater sandplover, but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is greater sand plover....
    , Charadrius leschenaultii
  • Caspian Plover
    Caspian Plover

    The Caspian Plover is a wader in the plover family of birds.It breeds on open grassland in central Asia, mainly to the north and east of the Caspian Sea....
    , Charadrius asiaticus
  • Oriental Plover
    Oriental Plover

    The Oriental Plover , Charadrius veredus , also known as the Oriental Dotterel , is a medium-sized Charadriine plover closely related to the Caspian Plover....
    , Charadrius veredus
  • Eurasian Dotterel
    Eurasian Dotterel

    The Eurasian Dotterel , or in Europe just Dotterel, is a small wader in the plover family of birds.It breeds in the Arctic tundra of northern Eurasia from Norway to eastern Siberia, and on suitable mountain plateaus such as the Scotland highlands and the Alps....
    , Charadrius morinellus
  • Rufous-chested Dotterel, Charadrius modestus
  • Mountain Plover
    Mountain Plover

    The Mountain Plover is a medium-sized ground bird in the plover family . It is misnamed, as it lives on level land. Unlike most plovers, it is usually not found near bodies of water or even on wet soil; it prefers dry habitat with short grass and bare ground....
    , Charadrius montanus
  • Hooded Plover
    Hooded Plover

    The Hooded Plover is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitats are freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and coastal saline lagoons....
    , Charadrius rubricollis
  • Shore Plover
    Shore Plover

    The Shore Plover is a small species of Plover endemism to New Zealand. Its Maori language name is Tuturuatu.The Shore Plover is an endangered species with a world population of around 200 birds....
    , Thinornis novaeseelandiae
  • Black-fronted Dotterel
    Black-fronted Dotterel

    The Black-fronted Dotterel is a small, slender plover, widespread throughout most of Australia, to which it is native and New Zealand, where it self introduced in the 1950's....
    , Elseyornis melanops
  • Inland Dotterel
    Inland Dotterel

    The Inland Dotterel , Charadrius australis , also known as the Australian Dotterel and sometimes placed in the monotypic genus Peltohyas, is a medium-sized Charadriine plover....
    , Peltohyas australis
  • Wrybill
    Wrybill

    The Wrybill or Ngutuparore Anarhynchus frontalis is a species of plover Endemic to New Zealand. It is unique in that it is the only species of bird in the world with a beak that is bent sideways ....
    , Anarhynchus frontalis
  • Diademed Plover, Phegornis mitchellii
  • Tawny-throated Dotterel
    Tawny-throated Dotterel

    The Tawny-throated Dotterel is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Oreopholus.It breeds in the Andes in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru....
    , Oreopholus ruficollis


External links

  • on the Internet Bird Collection.