Plover
Videos
Plovers are members of a widely distributed group of wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae. The term "plover" applies to all the members of the subfamily, though only about half of them include i
Common ringed plover Oppdal
Kentish plover, Cyprus
Little ringed plover, Norway
Greater sand plover, Thailand
Killdeer
Videos
The killdeer is a large plover found in the Americas. Its shrill, two-syllable call is often heard, sounding like "kill deer". It was described and given its current scientific name in 1758 by Carl Li
Plover
…Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823 6 Diademed sandpiper-plover Phegornis mitchellii (Fraser, 1845) 7 Eurasian dotterel Eudromias morinellus Linnaeus, 1758 8 Killdeer Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 9 Common ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula Linnaeus, 1758 10 Semipalmated plover Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte…
In flight
The subspecies C. v. ternominatus in Cuba
Copulation
A female on a nest in Pennsylvania