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Upland plover   /ˈəplənd plˈəvər/   Listen
Upland plover

noun
1.
Large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands.  Synonyms: Bartramia longicauda, Bartramian sandpiper, upland sandpiper.





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"Upland plover" Quotes from Famous Books



... to walk from a thousand years of strong-walking ancestors. She had her eyes from the deepest part of a deep moorland loch, her cheeks from the briar rose, some of the notes of her voice from the upland plover, and some from the lark. And her laugh was like an echo of the sounds that the River Tay makes when ...
— The Spread Eagle and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris


Words linked to "Upland plover" :   genus Bartramia, sandpiper, Bartramia


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