#plover any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers
supertype: #shorebird__shore_bird__shorebird__limicoline_bird__limicolinebird any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
member of: #family_Charadriidae
subtype: #piping_plover__Charadrius_melodus small plover of eastern North America
subtype: #killdeer_plover__killdeer__kildeer__Charadrius_vociferus American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry
subtype: #dotterel__dotrel__Charadrius_morinellus__Eudromias_morinellus rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia
subtype: #golden_plover plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots
subtype: #lapwing__green_plover__greenplover__peewit__pewit large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
subtype: #turnstone migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over stones in searching for food
subtype: #ruddy_turnstone__ruddyturnstone__Arenaria_interpres common arctic turnstone that winters south to South America and Australia
subtype: #black_turnstone__blackturnstone__Arenaria-Melanocephala common turnstone of North American Pacific coast
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