Plover

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This article is about the bird. For the Wisconsin city, see Plover, Wisconsin.

Plovers

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Charadriidae
Subfamily:	Charadriinae Leach, 1820

Genera

Pluvialis
Charadrius
Thinornis
Elseyornis
Peltohyas
Anarhynchus
Phegornis
Oreopholus

Plovers are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae. There are about 40 species in the subfamily, most of them called "plover" or "dotterel". The closely related lapwing 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 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

Eurasian Golden Plover, Pluvialis apricaria
Pacific Golden Plover, Pluvialis fulva
American Golden Plover, Pluvialis dominica - the American and Pacific Golden Plovers were formerly considered conspecific (as "Lesser Golden Plover"; Sangster et al., 2002)
Grey Plover or Black-bellied Plover, Pluvialis squatarola
New Zealand Dotterel or Red-breasted Plover, Charadrius obscurus
Ringed Plover, Charadrius hiaticula
Semipalmated Plover, Charadrius semipalmatus
Long-billed Plover, Charadrius placidus
Little Ringed Plover, Charadrius dubius
Wilson's Plover, Charadrius wilsonia
Killdeer, Charadrius vociferus
Piping Plover, Charadrius melodus
Black-banded Plover, Charadrius thoracicus
Kittlitz's Plover, Charadrius pecuarius
St. Helena Plover, Charadrius sanctaehelenae
Plover eggs laid on the ground
Three-banded Plover, Charadrius tricollaris
Forbes' Plover, Charadrius forbesi
Kentish Plover or Snowy Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus
Javan Plover, Charadrius (alexandrinus) javanicus
White-fronted Plover, Charadrius marginatus
Red-capped Plover, Charadrius ruficapillus
Malaysian Plover, Charadrius peronii
Chestnut-banded Plover, Charadrius pallidus
Collared Plover, Charadrius collaris
Puna Plover, Charadrius alticola
Double-banded Plover, Charadrius bicinctus
Two-banded Plover, Charadrius falklandicus
Lesser Sand Plover, Charadrius mongolus
Greater Sand Plover, Charadrius leschenaultii
Caspian Plover, Charadrius asiaticus
Oriental Plover, Charadrius veredus
Eurasian Dotterel, Charadrius morinellus
Rufous-chested Dotterel, Charadrius modestus
Mountain Plover, Charadrius montanus
Hooded Plover, Charadrius rubricollis
Shore Plover, Thinornis novaeseelandiae
Black-fronted Dotterel, Elseyornis melanops
Inland Dotterel, Peltohyas australis
Wrybill, Anarhynchus frontalis
Diademed Plover, Phegornis mitchellii
Tawny-throated Dotterel, Oreopholus ruficollis

Many of the Charadrius species are characterised by breast bands or collars. These can be (in the adult) complete bands (Ringed, Semipalmated, Little Ringed, Long-billed), double or triple bands (Killdeer, Three-banded, Forbes', Two-banded, Double-banded) or partial collars (Kentish, Piping, Malaysian, Javan, Red-capped, Puna)

References

Sangster, George; Knox, Alan G.; Helbig, Andreas J. & Parkin, David T. (2002): Taxonomic recommendations for European birds. Ibis 144(1): 153–159. doi:10.1046/j.0019-1019.2001.00026.x PDF fulltext

External links

Plover videos on the Internet Bird Collection

Plover, Wisconsin

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C. vociferus

Binomial name
Charadrius vociferus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a medium-sized plover.
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Charadriiformes
Huxley, 1867

Families

Scolopacidae
Rostratulidae
Jacanidae
Thinocoridae
Pedionomidae
Laridae
Rhynchopidae
Sternidae
Alcidae
Stercorariidae
Glareolidae
Dromadidae
Turnicidae
Burhinidae
Chionididae
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Charadriidae
Vigors, 1825

Genera

Vanellinae
Erythrogonys
Vanellus
Charadriinae
Pluvialis

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William Elford Leach FRS (February 2, 1790 – August 26, 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist.

Leach was born in Plymouth, the son of a solicitor. At the age of twelve he went to school in Exeter, studying anatomy and chemistry.
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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Pluvialis
Brisson, 1760

species

P. apricaria
P. fulva
P. dominica
P. squatarola

Pluvialis is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds.
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Charadrius
Linnaeus, 1758

species

see text

Charadrius is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds. They are found throughout the world.
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Thinornis
Gray,GR, 1845

Species: T. novaeseelandiae

Binomial name
Thinornis novaeseelandiae
(Gmelin, 1789)

The Shore Plover (
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Elseyornis
Mathews, 1913

Species: E. melanops

Binomial name
Elseyornis melanops
(Vieillot, 1818)

The Black-fronted Dotterel (
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Charadrius australis
Gould, 1841

The Inland Dotterel , Charadrius australis , also known as the Australian Dotterel and sometimes placed in the monotypic genus Peltohyas
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Anarhynchus
Quoy and Gaimard, 1830

Species: A. frontalis

Binomial name
Anarhynchus frontalis
Quoy and Gaimard, 1830

The Wrybill
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P. mitchellii

Binomial name
Phegornis mitchellii
(Fraser, 1845)

The Diademed Sandpiper-plover (Phegornis mitchellii) is a species of bird in the Charadriidae family.
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O. ruficollis

Binomial name
Oreopholus ruficollis
(Wagler, 1829)

Synonyms
Eudromias ruficollis (Wagler, 1829) The Tawny-throated Dotterel (Oreopholus ruficollis
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Charadrii

Families

Ibidorhynchidae
Recurvirostridae
Haematopodidae
Charadriidae

Waders, called shorebirds in North America (where "wader" is used to refer to long-legged wading birds such as storks and herons), are members
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family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is a rank, or a taxon in that rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Vanellinae
Bonaparte, 1842

Genus: Vanellus
Erythrogonys

Species

Many, see text.

Lapwings are medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae
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Snipe is any of nearly 20 very similar wading bird species in three genera in the family Scolopacidae. They characterised by a very long slender bill and cryptic plumage. The Gallinago snipes have a nearly worldwide distribution, the Lymnocryptes
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P. apricaria

Binomial name
Pluvialis apricaria
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Eurasian Golden Plover, Pluvialis apricaria, is a largish plover.
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P. fulva

Binomial name
Pluvialis fulva
(Gmelin, 1789)

Synonyms

Pluvialis dominica fulva

The Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva) is a medium-sized plover.
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P. dominica

Binomial name
Pluvialis dominica
(Statius Muller, 1776)

Synonyms

Pluvialis dominica dominica

The American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica
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Conspecificity is a concept in biology. Two or more individual organisms, populations, or taxa are termed conspecific if they belong to the same species.

The antonym is heterospecificity: two individuals are heterospecific
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P. squatarola

Binomial name
Pluvialis squatarola
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola), known as the Black-bellied Plover
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C. obscurus

Binomial name
Charadrius obscurus
Gmelin, 1789

The New Zealand Dotterel or Red-breasted Plover (Charadrius obscurus
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