Their dinner had two courses rather than one, and included luxuries such as veal, capons, pigeon, plovers and tarts. |
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Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage. |
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Management of piping plovers includes control of predators such as red foxes, raccoons, gulls, and crows. |
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse? |
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The moorland blaze has come at a bad time for ground-nesting birds such as golden plovers, curlews, lapwings and merlins, a rare bird of prey. |
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In the past week, sand martins, swallows, chiffchaffs, wheaters and ringed plovers have all been seen there. |
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Apart from the passing migrants, this site also attracts some of the rare birds such as little ringed plovers and red wattled lapwings, they say. |
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The Killdeer is the largest of the ringed plovers, and the only plover in its range with a double breast band. |
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I observed a pair of ringed plovers, a new species for me, a common redshank, two dozen black-winged stilts and a yellow wagtail. |
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But managing the moors for the grouse also preserves them for the plovers and Merlin. |
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There is, for example, a set of food dishes in the stylized shape of flying plovers, their wings glazed a deep green. |
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The waders, curlews, plovers and lapwing were there long before the hedgehogs were introduced. |
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He insists this perception is wrong and that the main threat to curlews and plovers comes not from buzzards but habitat loss. |
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As we went along we saw heron and green plovers, and later heard and saw snipe. |
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The stars were shining far away in the dark sky, and the green plovers were crying mournfully on the dark moor. |
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Water dikkops, nocturnal plovers and several species of kingfisher and bee-eaters have been sighted here. |
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Birds as diverse as parakeet, egrets, ducks, terns, and plovers were plummeting in numbers. |
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There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more. |
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Ducks, coots, teals, terns, gulls, cormorants, waders, egrets, plovers and herons are some of the birds that assemble here. |
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The stress response of the spring migrating semipalmated plovers, an Arctic breeding species, varied between two years. |
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Fifty semipalmated plovers settled beside the Sherwood Island jetty and became invisible among the rocks. |
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A couple of spur-winged plovers were flying around and a squacco heron flew over me. |
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At the sewage pond a dozen black winged stilts were feeding as well as a pair of spur-winged plovers. |
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There were a dozen black-winged stilts, two spur-winged plovers, a common sandpiper and my new life bird, a great snipe. |
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The best mode of managing a large congregation of plovers is the hide two of three sportsmen at a distance of about 100 yards from each other. |
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There were masses of ducks, black swans, tremendous numbers of ibis, and a huge congregation of plovers. |
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I watched the gulls and terns and a congregation of plovers who fed against the color-soaked sky. |
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Sandpipers and plovers of many species will pass through or decide to stay in the ponds and wetlands that dot central and southern Iraq. |
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When returning to Breydon shortly after high water, the great flights of plovers often arrive at a considerable height. |
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Like other plovers, Black-bellied plovers are visual feeders, but they may also probe for hidden prey. |
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Along the perimeter I saw an unusual number of crested larks and a few red-wattled plovers in a recently flooded field. |
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An estimated 1.5 million eared grebes, 50,000 Wilson's phalaropes, 50,000 California gulls, and 200 snowy plovers visit Mono Lake each spring and summer. |
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Etosha's grasslands are home to doublebanded plovers and black korhaans. |
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Many immature avocets spend their first summer after fledging well south of breeding areas, as do immature grey plovers, bar-tailed godwits and knot. |
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The weather cleared as we strolled the paths and lanes to Rufford, seeing hares running away over the fields and rather fewer green plovers than we might have expected. |
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For the peeps and plovers dancing in the surf, we had no time at all. |
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At the second pond I found a magpie hopping around near the water, some red-wattled plovers in the field, and a few Dead Sea Sparrows carrying nesting material. |
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Walking the ancient driftway through the marshes, we paused by the derelict drainage mill to watch the aerial manoeuvres of a mixed flight of golden plovers and lapwings. |
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Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south. |
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He pointed to a congregation of plovers just around the point. |
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In the Adyar river, black winged stilts, three varieties of egrets and migrants such as golden plovers, sand pipers and little stints are to be found. |
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When we arrived, it was past the peak of the fall shorebird migration, but there were still hundreds of sandpipers and plovers resting and feeding on Monomoy. |
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As usual, the local congregation of plovers has scattered at widespread intervals between the hundreds of the main constituents, a few black-headed gulls. |
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We saw hundreds of green plovers at the reserve the other day. |
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Each day as we were walking we saw much wildlife including hooded plovers, pied oyster-catchers, Cape Barren geese, Bennetts wallabies and thrillingly for me, a wombat. |
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In Scotland, gamekeepers blame the buzzard, a protected bird, for the deaths of thousands of partridges, pheasants, and waders such as curlews and plovers. |
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In autumn the mudflats host migrant shorebirds including plovers, yellowlegs, and sandpipers, and warblers are common in woodlands at both ends of the pond. |
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There were many water fowl such as ducks, geese, swans, heron, cranes, plovers, snipe and curlew, many of which would have been occasionally hunted for their meat. |
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Mr Deacon says that far from damaging wildlife, the lake and wetlands already attract kingfishers, mallards, woodpeckers, coots, waterhens, curlews, plovers, deer and foxes. |
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Peregrine falcons, whooping cranes, piping plovers, black-capped vireos and Bachman's warblers are just some of the better known of these species. |
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Among the variety of birds that can be seen in the valley are golden plovers, curlews and oystercatchers. |
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For VIPs, read light-bellied Brent geese, barnacle geese and pink-footed geese as well as wigeon, grey plovers and bar-tailed godwits. |
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Sandpipers, plovers, and yellowlegs hug the coasts or seek protected marshes as they traverse the Florida peninsula. |
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A pair of little ringed plovers at RSPB Conwy is raising hopes of nesting this year for the first time in years. |
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Rare wildlife includes otters, red grouse, golden plovers, curlews, ring ouzels and peregrine falcons. |
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Other birdlife which can be spotted on the island include pintails, shovelers, blackwinged stilts, teals, crab plovers, avocets and grey herons. |
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Scientists say it could lead to the extinction of some birds which feed on cranefly, such as golden plovers, by the end of the century. |
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Warmer weather in the spring is encouraging golden plovers to breed more than a week earlier than they did 20 years ago. |
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Populations of dunlin, lapwing and ringed plovers have dropped by 60 per cent after the hedgehogs developed a taste for their eggs. |
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Green and common sandpipers are currently feeding around the pools, often joined by dunlins, little ringed plovers and lapwings. |
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Birdlife on the moors includes such rare species as golden plovers, dunlins, twites, ring ouzels, red grouse and curlews. |
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Staff and volunteers will point out wigeons, pochards, tufted ducks, geese and little ringed plovers. |
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Two pairs of little ringed plovers have nested at Ringstone reservoir, near Ripponden. |
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Lapwings, redshanks and ringed plovers have all come under threat from the hedgehogs which eat their eggs. |
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This leads to oddities like the New World's Southern Lapwing and Collared Plover being covered forty pages after the Old World's Northern Lapwing and other vagrant plovers. |
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They fear rare birds including buzzards, hen harriers, golden plovers and curlews could be at serious risk if wind farms continue to be built in nesting areas. |
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Moorland-nesting merlins and golden plovers head downhill and may spend their winters on low-lying farmland or coastal marshes only a few miles from where they bred. |
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Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters, scissor-bills, adjutants, pelicans, cormorants, cranes, whimbrels, plovers, and ibises. |
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Their park warden mother engages her sons' help to build an exclosure to keep invaders away from nesting piping plovers on the beach of Prince Edward Island National Park. |
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Birdlife includes flamingos, sea gulls, cormorants, wild fowl, pintails, shovelers, blackwinged stilts, teals, crab plovers, avocets and grey herons. |
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The eggs, which were found at an address in the city on October 15, included those of kingfishers, little-ringed plovers, tree pipits and hawfinches. |
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High tide at Morfa Madryn at the start of the week saw a large flock of dunlins, sanderlings and ringed plovers, many still in their smart summer plumage. |
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Burger reasoned that a study of sanderlings and their foraging behavior in the presence of people might yield clues about their rarer cousins, the piping plovers. |
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