How to Use snowy plover in a Sentence
snowy plover
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Gardner then spots the bobbing heads of a snowy plover and its chick among the grasses.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
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For two weeks, the brown-and-white snowy plover was fed tiny worms and appeared to be perking up.
—Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 31 May 2020
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Both are areas where snowy plovers and streaked horn larks are nesting.
—Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 16 Apr. 2018
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The oil spill that fouled the coast threatened the snowy plover at a time when experts were hopeful that the species was making a comeback.
—Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2021
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The day before, a drone went down in Bolsa Chica near nesting sites of the California least tern and the snowy plover.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
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Life was never easy for the Pacific Coast’s western snowy plover.
—Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2021
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The oil spill threatens the remarkable comeback of the western snowy plover, a gray-feathered shorebird that makes nests from seashells.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
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The larger incubator turns the eggs every two hours, just like a snowy plover mother would in a nest, Egger said.
—Priscella Vega, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
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Work in the wetlands is prohibited from early spring to mid-fall, which is nesting season for protected species of birds such as the snowy plover and the least tern.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
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The western snowy plover is a small shorebird that is protected under the federal Endangered Species Act.
—Daily Pilot Staff, Daily Pilot, 12 Sep. 2017
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Environmental groups raised concerns that unleashed canines could cause harm to rare and at-risk western snowy plovers and California least terns that roost nearby.
—Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 6 Sep. 2019
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Of those species, 23 have special status, including the California least tern and Ridgway’s rail, which are endangered, and the Western snowy plover, which is classified as threatened.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2021
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, along with other partners, constructed mud islands within these managed ponds in 2010 for birds, like snowy plovers, stilts and avocets.
—Priyanka Runwal, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
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Swans and 17 species of duck frequent Gillmor, which also provides nesting habitat for various shorebirds, such as the snowy plover, American avocet, Wilson’s phalarope, black-necked stilt, cinnamon teal and gadwall.
—Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Dec. 2020
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