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Greater Sand Plover

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The Greater Sand Plover, Charadrius leschenaultii, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. It breeds in the semi-deserts of Turkey and eastwards through Central Asia.

Lesser Sand Plover

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The Lesser Sand Plover, Charadrius mongolus, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. It breeds above the tree line in the Himalayas and discontinuously across to bare coastal plains in ...

Semipalmated Plover

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The Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) is a small plover. Their breeding habitat is open ground on beaches or flats across northern Canada and Alaska.

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, ...

Kittlitz's Plover

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The Kittlitz's Plover (Charadrius pecuarius) is a small plover found in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and the Nile delta.

Piping Plover

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The Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America.

Killdeer

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The Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a medium-sized plover. Their breeding habitat is open fields or lawns, often quite far from water, across most of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, with ...