Synonyms:
plover
Meaning: any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers
Usage examples
The enormous bag limits of 35 rail and 50 each per day of plover, snipe and shore birds is a crime!
Moreover, the name of our farm was pure proof; a plover being a wild bird, just the same as a raven is.
There should be five-year close seasons enacted for quail, grouse, plover, woodcock, snipe, and all other shore birds.
Especially is the shooting of plover, sandpiper, marsh and beach birds, rail, duck, geese and brant from September 1, to April 15, an outrage.
The sale of game will not trouble New Mexico, because the present laws prevent the sale of all protected game except plover, curlew and snipe,--all of them species by no means common in the arid regions of the Southwest.