Plover

PLOVER is a plump, short-necked, grey-brown and white shorebird, abundant along coastal beaches and Interior lakefronts. Plovers forage for INSECTS and small bivalves on shorelines and mudflats by running in short spurts, then tipping down to eat. Unlike the SANDPIPER, they have 3-toed feet that usually lack the hind digit; this can be seen in the tracks they leave in the sand. Of 10 species in Canada, 5 are found in BC. Black-bellied plovers (Pluvialis squatarola) are very common on estuarine...

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