noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
golden
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Birds under threat include dunlin, golden plover , black grouse, merlin and hen harrier.
ringed
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On the shingle beach, where the burnet rose grows, ringed plovers incubate eggs in shallow scrapes.
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Redshank and ringed plovers also feed out on the flats.
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Birds using the bay as a stopping-off point for migration include the ringed plover and sanderling.
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Parties of knot patter Ed on the icy mud flats. Ringed plovers scurried in their busy way.
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Turnstones and purple sandpipers will join the redshanks and ringed plovers which are probably resident.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a threatened species, the snowy plover is protected under the federal Endangered Species Act.
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Fish and Wildlife Service reviews a management plan to protect the threatened Western snowy plover .
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On the shingle beach, where the burnet rose grows, ringed plovers incubate eggs in shallow scrapes.
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Only 1, 200 to 1, 500 of the coastal variety of the western snowy plover are left in the world.
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Ringed plover and sanderling pass through in great numbers on their way further south.
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Studies document canine harassment of plovers.
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Turnstones and purple sandpipers will join the redshanks and ringed plovers which are probably resident.