plover 
plover (pluv′ər, plō′vər)
noun pl. -·ers or -·er
- any of a worldwide family (Charadriidae) of shorebirds, having a short tail, long, pointed wings, a short, stout beak, and, usually, brown or gray feathers
- any of various similar birds
Etymology: ME < OFr plovier, lit., rain bird < VL *pluviarius < L pluvia, rain (see pluvial): said to be so named because it was believed to cry before a rain
Possessives
- egg: Did they learn the habit when their so-called plovers ' eggs became a dainty.
Converse of object
- include: On the large estates, management of the heather for grouse helps to conserve wild birds including the golden plover.
- tail: But the bird of this area tho was a White tailed plover, an Asian vagrant and only the eighth Hungarian record.
- wing: On the drive kestrel, spur winged plover, turtle dove and a distant great gray shrike were added.
- winter: The open field pattern to the north is an important site for wintering golden plover.
- have: Inland lochans can hold red-throated divers, while, in summer, the hill ridges and moors have golden plover, curlew and skylark.
- see: Back on the coach a group of waders in a field were thought to be golden plover seen only by Dorothy.
Adjective modifier
- ringed: Also, ringed plovers have declined by 50 % across all the islands.
- Kentish: Kentish plover: 7 on the old airfield at Montana Roja on 17th November.
- golden: Back on the coach a group of waders in a field were thought to be golden plover seen only by Dorothy.
- gray: Keep an eye open for the waders, gray plover.
- little: Of special interest was a little ringed plover on the salt marsh, a bird more associated with fresh water habitats.
- green: Back To Bird Index LAPWING Lapwing - peewit - green plover - these are different names for the same bird.
Modifies a noun
- nest: Discover the rich diversity of Dartmoor ' s wildlife including: Blanket bogs on the high north moor where dunlin and golden plover nest.
- breed: Colonies of tern and ringed plover breed in this habitat in Chichester Harbor.
Noun used with modifier
- gray: Pluvialis squatarola gray plover L L WCA 1981 EC Birds Directive Annex II Bern Convention App.
- sand: However, the book does not mention that greater sand plover are regular in winter on the rocks at Paphos headland.
- ring: A green sandpiper feed busily from the gravely beach, which will soon provide breeding areas for little ring plover and common sandpiper.
Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.
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