How to Use snowy plover in a Sentence

snowy plover

noun

• Gardner then spots the bobbing heads of a snowy plover and its chick among the grasses.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Both are areas where snowy plovers and streaked horn larks are nesting.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Life was never easy for the Pacific Coast’s western snowy plover.
  — Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024