The Plover is a finch sized wading bird whose hunt and peck technique differs from typical animal family cognates like lapwings। But Plovers with their agile short legs and delicate camouflaged feathering make up part of the symbiosis of nature and interdependent moorland and tundra waterland ecosystems. Various plover subspecies will have broad legs, longer bills, stronger wings and varied colorations which bird lovers use to identify them.The plover shore bird scraps through various beach locales of Alaska, The Arctic, Russia and various other countries while storing up food for winter. The stored fuel works wonders when the emigrational V-shaped formation moves South. Plover variations can breed in the Arctic, Asia or the tropical waters and shores of the Pacific Ocean. Bird watchers in Hawaii, Japan and other countries in Asia might see them flowing through for winter. The Atlantic Coast of the United States hosts some protected species.
Scratching a nest from gravel tideland and sparse vegetation, the Plover lays eggs in the shore। The height can be no more than 8-9 inches (or generally smaller) with head extended upward, but the curving “hunch” can factor into the pulse and prey method of hunting food. The mostly black brownish colorations aid being able to blend into surface cover and “surprise” prey of crustaceans, insects, and small marine life . The plover plumps up for winter with dense protein to be burned in oversea flight.
The wading Plover looks for calm beach and tidal areas to forage and hunt. The straight bill is small but efficient. Intertidal mud flats and sand bars make for slim pickings. Coastal lands and grasses provide its prey. The plover and its many varieties will migrate when winter comes and its feathers will change plumage in strategic ways to mask it from aerial predators and larger birds looking to steal a meal.
Plovers can be separated into a species by their breast pattern and color, rings in feather and around neck and collar colorations. The subtly defined strata of feathers blends with the mud flats and lagoon beds where the Plover browses for meals. Some species have longer feather, darker rumps, dark rings, and some seasonal colorations that change when migration seasons comes. Yellow can emerge in migrational seasons, rarer orange as well as cream or gray replacing easier to see darker feathered wings and underparts that would otherwise make them a target in the air.
The Plover wades for food, eating insects, crustaceans, whatever its legs and foraging bill can find. Sand bars, algal flats, and marshy wetland make excellent Plover homeland, for example the Piping Plover in the Great Lakes. The Plover industriously works up a winter layer and battles predation by whatever it can come upon with its beak. Ants and coyotes may attack nests, and many federally protected species have mandated fencing and human protection efforts to keep plover populations surviving.
Some of the more well-known Plovers include Eurasian Golden Plover, Pacific Golden Plover, American Golden Plover, Grey Plover, Black-bellied Plover, Red-breasted Plover, Ringed Plover, Semipalmated Plover, Long-billed Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Piping Plover, Black-banded Plover, St. Helena Plover, Three-banded Plover, Snowy Plover, Javan Plover, White-fronted Plover, Red-capped Plover, Malaysian Plover, Chestnut-banded Plover, Collared Plover, Puna Plover, Lesser Sand Plover, Greater Sand Plover, Caspian Plover, and Oriental Plover.
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