| Management of piping plovers includes control of predators such as red foxes, raccoons, gulls, and crows. |
| So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse? |
| Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage. |
| 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. |
| In the past week, sand martins, swallows, chiffchaffs, wheaters and ringed plovers have all been seen there. |
| 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. |
