...Should he wish to land, it is merely because he has seen a large flight of landrails or plovers, of wild ducks, teal, widgeon, or woodchucks, which fall an easy pray to net or gun... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...Hares, antelopes,woodcocks, snipes, plovers, bustards...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...I felt great astonishment on finding that Ihad driven, near Lake Tyrrell, into the midst of a company ofover a thousand Black-breasted Plovers, not noticed until the eyepicked out one and then another...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...Most plovers nest in the Arctic regions, where man andhis wicked ways are unknown...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
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These busy, cheerful, sprightly little peepers are always ready towelcome to their flocks other birds—ring-necked plovers, turnstones,snipe and phalaropes...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...Though not ranked as song birds, many of the Snipes and Plovers havepleasing calls and whistles and in the breeding season they becomehighly musical or indulge in singular vocal performances...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...Then we saw that our "pigeons," or "sea-birds,"had been nothing but killdeer plovers, which, like other long-wingedbirds, look much larger in the air than when at rest...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...They are plovers of some kind, I should judge, but I do not know...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...Other sounds heard at night-time are the plaintive did-he-do-itpity-to-do-it of the red-wattled lapwing (Sarcogrammusindicus), and the shrill calls of other plovers...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...In some of its habits it resembles the Plovers, as it frequentsopen plains and runs with great rapidity...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...In the hilly districts of the north of Europe, Golden Plovers arenumerous, sometimes being, with Ptarmigans, the only birds whichrelieve the solitude of the desolate wastes...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...Just as Starlings habitually alight whereverthey see Rooks or Gulls feeding, so the Grey Plovers join themselveson to any society of birds which has detected a good hunting-ground...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...In their mode of using their wings they remind thespectator of Ducks rather than of Plovers, and they advance ina line, sometimes in single file, one after another, but more frequentlywing by wing...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...—The only individual seen was taken from a mixed flock of Sanderlings and Wilson Plovers...
Erwin E. Klaas 「Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula」
...Duringthe evening also some plovers flew over us, and we heard some native dogshowling to the south-west...
Charles Sturt 「Expedition into Central Australia」
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