upland plover

On its breeding grounds it often hovers, almost motionless in the air, as the upland plover sometimes does.

There were upland plover in great plenty; and before I had been away from the camp fifteen minutes I had several in my pockets.

In North America this is to-day the status of the whooping crane, upland plover, and several other species.

Upland plover, marbled godwit, Baird's sparrow, chestnut-collared longspur.

Two caterpillar enemies of cotton, the cotton worm and the cotton cutworm, are eaten by the upland plover and killdeer.